Pediatrics News

WASHINGTON — Vaccine adherence was increasing among children in the United States in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, but rates differed by socioeconomic status, researchers reported at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Experts at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting suggested reframing conversations about HPV to encourage parents to get children vaccinated starting at age 9 years.

WASHINGTON — Reminders included in electronic health records improved the use of preventive medication and reduced health care utilization for asthma, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

WASHINGTON — The themes of year’s Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting address overcoming racism in practice, misinformation, and the impact of policy on health and research, the program chair told Healio.

The United States met perinatal HIV elimination goals for the first time in 2019, according to a study led by CDC researchers.

A 6-year-old girl is urgently brought into the Weed Army Community Hospital’s pediatric clinic at Fort Irwin, California, after the mother removed a long worm from the toilet bowl right after the child had a bowel movement. What's your diagnosis?

WHO announced that it is partnering with other global health groups on a campaign called “The Big Catch-Up” to promote childhood vaccination amid a decline in routine immunizations in more than 100 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 40% of healthy mothers recruited for a study testing fecal transplantation for babies born by cesarean section tested positive for potentially harmful pathogens, Finnish researchers reported.

The Biden administration has declared xylazine-laced fentanyl an “emerging threat” to the United States — the first time an administration has made such a declaration.

A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that a mandate of the Affordable Care Act requiring employers and insurers to cover certain preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force at no cost is unconstitutional.