Pediatric ID News

The CDC on Tuesday recommended the updated monovalent COVID-19 vaccines for people aged older than 6 months.

Annual pediatric hospitalizations decreased substantially in the United States during a recent 10-year span, with the largest decreases seen at rural and urban nonteaching hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA on Monday approved and authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech that target omicron XBB subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.

A pediatric health care system totaled more than $250,000 in antibiotic waste over the course of 2 years — most of it on discarded antibiotics, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

The CDC issued a health alert notifying clinicians about recent spikes in respiratory syncytial virus activity.

A study of 10-year follow-up data showed no cases of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and few cases of HPV infection among almost 1,300 boys and girls who received the 9-valent HPV vaccine, according to results published in Pediatrics.

For the first time, many Americans will enter the fall with multiple options to protect themselves against respiratory syncytial virus, even young children.

HPV vaccine coverage in U.S. teenagers did not increase in 2022 for the first time in a decade, according to data published in MMWR.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, as “the most catastrophic acute infectious disease outbreak” in more than a century.

A large study found that long COVID-related conditions may persist among patients for as long as 2 years after recovery from acute disease, with COVID-19-related hospitalization increasing the risk sharply.