Pediatric ID News

  Healio spoke with Debra Langlois, MD, pediatrician and clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, about everything providers need to know about COVID-19 vaccination for children.

  Healio spoke with Debra Langlois, MD, pediatrician and clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, about everything providers need to know about COVID-19 vaccination for children.

  Healio spoke with Debra Langlois, MD, pediatrician and clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, about everything providers need to know about COVID-19 vaccination for children.

COVID-19 has become a leading cause of death among children and teens in the United States, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

A phase 2 randomized clinical trial found that ceftolozane/tazobactam was a safe and effective option for the treatment of children with complicated UTIs, researchers reported in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

An FDA advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday in favor of a plan to streamline and simplify COVID-19 vaccine compositions in the United States by replacing initial, primary doses with the bivalent vaccines currently used as boosters.

A study of pregnant people with syphilis found that substance use during pregnancy was nearly twice as common among those who delivered an infant with congenital syphilis than among peers who did not pass the infection to their baby.

Being infected with SARS-CoV-2 at any time during pregnancy was associated with greater risks for maternal death, severe maternal morbidity and neonatal morbidity, according to the findings of an international meta-analysis.

Children hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a secondary viral infection like respiratory syncytial virus or rhinovirus were around twice as likely to have severe respiratory illness, a study found.

The percentage of kindergarteners who had received certain routine childhood immunizations declined again last school year, CDC researchers reported Thursday.