Gwenn Skar, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She earned her medical degree and completed her…
Healio reports on a study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society into antiviral prescribing for infants with flu. CDC recommends the antiviral oseltamivir for infants younger…
Do you remember your first IDWeek? I recognize for some of us our inaugural experience was at a meeting with a different name but think back to that first one…
Medpage Today reports on a longitudinal observational study of long COVID and children in the United States. Researchers identified 14 prolonged symptoms that were more common in those with a…
W. Christopher Golden, MD, FAAP, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Medical Director, Newborn Nursery and Director, Pediatrics Core Clerkship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He…
Medpage Today reports on CDC data from the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program since its inception in 1994 through 2023. The impressive data shared covered illnesses, hospitalizations, deaths, and even…
The world’s largest organization of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control, and eradication of infectious diseases affecting children, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, has designated 27 distinguished physicians and scientists…
Every four years – plus or minus a year when a pandemic completely disrupts everything – the Summer Olympics puts up the biggest tent in the world and invites everyone….
CNN reports on the advisory issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention of a “critical shortage” of vials manufactured by BD Life Sciences used in collecting samples for…
Mark R. Schleiss, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Division of Infectious Diseases, where he is the American Legion and Auxiliary Heart…
A French prospective study revealed nirsevimab protected infants against hospitalization, pediatric intensive care unit admission, and mechanical ventilation due to RSV, reports Medpage Today. The monoclonal antibody was estimated to…
Differentiating PIDS from the PIDS Foundation is often confusing. When I joined the Board several years ago, I struggled with the simultaneous integration and sometimes puzzling differentiation of the two…
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