Our family spent the Fourth of July in Washington, DC, for the first time, helping our oldest daughter (and new son-in-law) move into their apartment. While the fireworks were remarkable,…
Medpage Today reports on a SCOUT (Short Course Therapy for Urinary Tract Infections) trial into antibiotic course duration for children with urinary tract infections. A study author noted the trial…
Following a late June meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Medpage Today shared the unanimous agreement to include 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV20; Prevnar) as an option…
Dhanya Dharmapalan, MD, is a Consultant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, India. She is the National Coordinator of the Apollo Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme for over 70…
Trudy Murphy, MD, retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2014, though she continued working with ongoing projects at the CDC and the World Health Organization…
Medpage Today reported on the early June vote of approval by the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee in favor of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody against RSV. The vote was unanimous for…
NBC News shares a CDC report on a spring spike in human metapneumovirus that has prompted doctors across the country to warn of a mix of respiratory and bug-borne viruses…
My son, Seth, gave me Albert Camus’, “The Plague,” a few weeks ago. Camus was a French philosopher and author who was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. The…
CNN reports on a Pew Research Center survey that found Americans continue to have broadly favorable views of routine childhood vaccines despite the tumult surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. Only about…
In a study reported on by Healio, children were found to be falling far behind adults in both testing and treatment of HIV. While children account for 5% of all…
Ezzeldin Saleh, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Southern Illinois School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree at University of Khartoum, Sudan, and completed his pediatric residency at…
Healio details the results of a CDC internal and external review of pandemic performance. The results were not good. The issues discovered included: the agency was too slow to share…
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