Preventive Medicine News

Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday that they have submitted topline data on their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years to the FDA.

Medical cannabis dispensary workers such as budtenders, managers and pharmacists often made recommendations on cannabis use to customers based on their personal or coworkers’ experience, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The Moderna vaccine was found to be more effective than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in U.S. health care workers, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Moderate to intense feelings of imposter syndrome are extremely prevalent among medical students, according to survey results presented at the Women in Medicine Summit.

U.S. counties without school mask requirements saw pediatric COVID-19 cases increase nearly twice as fast in the 2 weeks after schools reopened than counties with mask mandates, according to an MMWR report published Friday.

A WHO guideline panel has updated recommendations for monoclonal antibody treatment in its “living” guide on drugs for COVID-19. The guidelines are published in The BMJ.

As typhoid fever becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics, a study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that a conjugate vaccine for the disease proved effective for Malawi’s younger population.

Primary care physicians often face challenges discussing alcohol use with older patients, according to a study published in the British Journal of General Practice.

Falls Prevention Awareness Week, which runs through Sept. 24, is an opportune time for physicians to talk to all patients about falls, which cost the U.S. at least $50 billion in health care costs annually, an expert said.

The rate of BMI increase among children almost doubled during the pandemic, according to researchers, who found that younger kids experienced larger increases than teens and preteens.