Pediatrics News

TORONTO — Shorter courses of antibiotics were associated with increased odds of reinfection and death among infants treated in the NICU for Escherichia coli bacteremia who were not evaluated for meningitis, a study showed.

TORONTO — Children with high blood pressure are more likely to be at risk for a stroke, heart attack or other major cardiac event later in life, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Most children in three rural Alabama counties live without connections to centralized sewer systems, placing them at risk for certain infections, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Acrochordons, also known as skin tags or fibroepithelial polyps, are correlated with metabolic disease and obesity in pediatric patients, according to a study.

Participation in the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting is back to pre-COVID-19 levels of engagement, according to one of the event’s program chairs.

The number of global measles cases nearly doubled in 1 year after a decline in vaccine coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

Children conceived via fresh or frozen embryo transfer may have increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia compared with children conceived naturally, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

The Eat, Sleep, Console approach — which prioritizes nonpharmacologic care — improved outcomes among infants treated for opioid withdrawal syndrome, according to study results published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The world’s response to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio has slowed over the past decade, according to finding presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference.

A new tool could help pediatricians identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus, according to research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.