It has been my singular honor to serve you all as PIDS President for the past 2 years. Your work as clinicians, educators, scientists, public health officials, industry leaders, administrators,…
Medpage Today has reported on a large observational database study examining outcomes of amoxicillin-clavulanate for pediatric acute sinusitis compared to amoxicillin alone. While the two options carried similarly low risk…
The Washington Post reports a second anti-malaria vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization. Based on preclinical and clinical trial data, the vaccine showed reduced symptomatic cases in…
A new study covered by Healio suggests adopting a new standard cutoff for determining urinary tract infections in febrile children undergoing bladder catheterization. According to a study author, there were…
Medpage Today reports the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted nearly unanimously to recommend the updated COVID-19 vaccine shots for everyone aged six months and up. The vote was…
Rebecca Same, MD, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at…
The National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has completed a year-long process to evaluate the pediatric subspecialty workforce and develop recommendations moving forward. The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and…
I don’t think I can overstate how much I love watching The West Wing. I’m typically a fan of Aaron Sorkin’s work (A Few Good Men, The American President, Newsroom,…
Healio covers a study on antibiotic waste conducted on Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Over a two-year span (2020-2021), the three-hospital system of more than 600 beds found it incurred costs…
Medpage Today reports on a recent CDC recommendation for healthcare providers to consider malaria in diagnosis of patients with unexplained fever. This was in response to eight cases of locally…
Scott James, MD, FPIDS, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He has served as the UAB…
Medscape reports the incidence of long COVID may more often cause one to think of adults and seniors, however, new research is shining the light on its affects in children….
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