Vaccination

Short-term apnea is more common among hospitalized preterm infants who receive their 2-month vaccines compared with those who do not, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Pediatrics.

In early December, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, announced that an unknown illness had emerged and had already killed dozens of patients, with hundreds more sick.

A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has been linked to nine cases and eight deaths, according to WHO.

Nearly one in six U.S. children received at least one vaccine dose outside the recommended age guidelines during a recent 10-year period, according to study findings published in Pediatrics.

A surge in measles cases linked to declining vaccination rates could threaten the United States’ measles elimination status, the CDC said in 2024.

The most-read Healio Pediatrics story of 2024 was a Q&A with Lisa L. Abuogi, MD, MSc, FAAP, who co-authored the AAP’s policy statement in support of breastfeeding for parents with HIV.

Routine childhood immunizations have prevented 1.1 million deaths in the United States since the CDC’s Vaccines for Children program launched in 1994, according to researchers.

The FDA accepted a biologics license application for Merck’s respiratory syncytial virus immunization, clesrovimab, the company announced Tuesday.

An FDA advisory committee said it wants to see more data to understand the implications of what the FDA called an “imbalance” in cases of severe respiratory syncytial virus among infants participating in an early-stage RSV vaccine trial.