Gerard Gallagher

BOSTON — Children with multiple complex medical conditions receive more than 5 times the amount of antibiotics compared with healthy children and double that of the elderly, according to a large study.“Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in children,” Kathleen D. Snow, MD, MPH, instructor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, told attendees

BOSTON — A New York law that required cannabis products be sold in child-resistant packaging did not reduce the number of accidental ingestions among kids, according to a presenter at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting. As more states have legalized recreational marijuana, exposures among children have increased rapidly, especially edible cannabis products.

BOSTON — A study of more than 8,000 children in five countries with suspected septic shock showed no difference in kidney complications when they received balanced fluid vs. 0.9% saline for resuscitation.The results were published April 24 in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented the next day here at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.

BOSTON — Measles vaccination coverage remained well below herd immunity rates nearly 2 years after a large measles outbreak in central Ohio, according to data presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting. “Outbreak response can contain transmission in the short term, but improving vaccination coverage often requires sustained long-term work,” Rosemary A. Martoma, MD, MBChB, a

Sixty-five people are reported to have died in a new Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Africa CDC said Friday.

An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has surpassed 500 suspected cases, WHO's top official said Tuesday.

Experts voiced support for the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, a deeply credentialed physician with public health experience and a history of supporting vaccines, to be the next director of the CDC.But they were troubled by several other developments involving the CDC, including changes made to the rules controlling how the agency’s influential vaccine advisory panel operates,

MUNICH — A randomized clinical trial demonstrated the limits of rapid testing to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of gram-negative bacteria that are causing bloodstream infections.The study of more than 800 hospitalized adults and children in four countries found that rapid blood culture testing was not more likely to result in desirable clinical outcomes compared with standard

An hourlong session during this year’s ESCMID Global raised awareness of hospital sinks and toilets as a source of outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hillary A. Craddock, PhD, MPH, lecturer in the department of public health and epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, summarized the challenges of reducing the spread of bacteria from hospital hand

The FDA on Monday approved the first medication for COVID-19 prevention that people can take after they have been exposed to someone with the disease, according to the drug's manufacturer, Shionogi.