Pediatric ID News

A Texas health system moderately increased adherence to syphilis testing among pregnant people by implementing a tool that interrupted the completion of a chart if a test was not ordered, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

President Joe Biden on Friday officially announced that former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, will be the next director of the CDC.

An FDA advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend changing the composition of the country’s COVID-19 vaccines to be monovalent XBB-lineage vaccines, removing the wild strain of SARS-CoV-2 from the shots.

The FDA recently approved two separate vaccines to prevent respiratory syncytial virus in older adults. Soon, additional RSV prevention tools may be available for pediatric patients, too.

An FDA advisory committee on Thursday voted in favor of approving the long-acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab to protect neonates and infants from respiratory syncytial virus.

A review of nearly 250,000 doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine administered to young children identified no serious side effects from the shots, according to results published in Pediatrics.

Among more than 72,000 blood donors in the United States aged 16 years or older, 96% had antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19 by late last year, according to a new analysis.

President Joe Biden is set to announce former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, as the next director of the CDC, according to multiple reports.

There were increases in rare pediatric intracranial infections over the past 3 years that coincided with notable spikes in respiratory viruses, although the infections remained rare, according to two reports published Thursday in MMWR.

A recent study of trends in HPV vaccine hesitancy found that the number of parents citing safety concerns as a reason not to vaccinate their children has increased.