Sara Kellner

Influenza vaccination continues to protect children from influenza-related outpatient visits and hospitalizations, according to post-pandemic data published in Pediatrics. “We have had really severe recent seasons for flu, particularly in children,” Samantha M. Olson, MPH, an epidemiologist in the CDC’s influenza division, told Healio in an interview. “This study really adds to the growing body

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

BOSTON — Nearly one-third of children with autism were diagnosed by a primary care provider, according to a study of Medicaid data from 2017 to 2019.“An autism diagnosis is often required for insurance coverage of therapy services, but long wait times delay this process,” Corey A. Gorgas, MA, research coordinator in the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at

The American Academy of Pediatrics released its first clinical practice guideline on faltering weight — formerly known as failure to thrive — with advice for diagnosing and treating the condition.

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,

BOSTON — The mortality disadvantage among children in the United States has existed for more than 50 years, according to recent findings — much longer than experts previously thought. In a previous JAMA study, Lauren Koenigsberg and colleagues found that children in the U.S. had a greater risk for death than children in peer nations between 2007 and 2023. A new study Koenigsberg presented at the

A rewritten charter for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee that would have loosened the rules for membership to allow for less qualified members has been withdrawn.A document published in the Federal Register on May 19 states that the renewal for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices charter was withdrawn due to “an administrative error in meeting the revised public