Going to the St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference is always a rewarding time. We are all together, learning and laughing and enjoying our pediatric ID world. I hope…
Healio reports on study findings published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society regarding fluoroquinolone exposure. The researchers investigated whether fluoroquinolone prophylaxis was associated with an elevated risk…
Dear Senate HELP Committee, The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) is the world’s largest organization of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control, and eradication of infectious diseases affecting children. Our…
Latania Logan, MD, MSPH, is Professor of pediatrics and Associate Division Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree at Wayne…
The New York Times has reported on an ongoing and worsening outbreak of measles in west Texas. At the time of reporting in mid-February, 22 children and two adults had…
PIDS will continue to lead with our partners in infectious diseases, pediatrics, and all of medicine. I have heard from numerous Society members wanting to voice their frustrations, their anxiety,…
In the wake of an executive order, Helio reports on the reaction by public health experts to the removal of online resources relating to HIV, STIs and other health topics….
Grant Paulsen, MD, is Associate Professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He earned his medical degree at the University of Colorado and conducted his residency at the…
Healio reports on a recently published 10-year study into childhood vaccine guideline adherence. It found nearly 1 in 6 children in the United States received at least one vaccine outside…
Happy New Year! It might be charitable to label 2025 as “intriguing” for healthcare. New years bring new challenges, but also new opportunities. As the Society and as individual practitioners,…
Medpage Today reports the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined research and development of an RSV vaccine for…
Sandra Arnold, MD, MSc, FPIDS, is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center…
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