COVID-19

An NIH-funded study found a potential link between the combination of prenatal COVID-19 and maternal stress and an increased risk for impaired attention span in infants, according to findings reported in Pediatric Research.

NEW YORK — Children that contracted COVID-19 are at risk for developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which can present cutaneously, according to a poster presentation here.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests rose by 19% during the COVID-19 pandemic in King County, Washington, yet data suggest pandemic-related changes in emergency medical services response and care — not the virus itself — affected survival.

Evaluating cough sounds of patients with COVID-19 could help determine the severity of their condition and lead to quicker treatment for those with severe disease, according to results published in ERJ Open Research.

Fewer old adults are hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus than COVID-19 or influenza, but those who are experience more serious outcomes than patients hospitalized with the other two illnesses, new CDC data show.

CHICAGO — The field of medicine has functioned in an old power world for centuries and the time has come for new power to “enter the chat,” according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.

CHICAGO — The field of medicine has functioned in an old power world for centuries and the time has come for new power to “enter the chat,” according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.

Moderna said Wednesday that its messenger RNA-based combination vaccine against influenza and COVID-19 elicited neutralizing antibody levels that were as high — or higher — than existing vaccines in a phase 1/2 trial.

The FDA on Tuesday authorized Novavax’s updated COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents and adults, giving the country a third vaccine option heading into the fall and winter respiratory diseases season.