Pediatrics News

SAN DIEGO — Urban children with asthma and overweight or obesity exhibited significant metabolic changes compared with other urban children with asthma, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

The average number of inappropriate antibiotics prescribed monthly decreased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but returned to pre-pandemic levels by late 2021, data show.

The NIH has awarded Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD, a $6.6 million grant to investigate dupilumab as a treatment for children with alopecia areata, Mount Sinai announced in a press release.

The CDC advised clinicians for a second time to be on alert for possible mpox cases in travelers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who may be infected with a deadlier strain of the virus than the one that caused an outbreak in 2022.

Just ahead of the start of summer vacation, the CDC has released guidance on preventing infections among students in kindergarten through 12th grade for the 2024-2025 school year.

Gender-diverse youth were underrepresented in health system data, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The addition of azithromycin to daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole treatment among pregnant women with HIV did not reduce the rate of malaria or bacterial sexually transmitted infections at delivery, data show.

Except for procalcitonin, blood biomarkers perform worse when young infants have very short fevers, decreasing the accuracy of common clinical decision rules, including those endorsed by the AAP, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

Following decades of decreasing rates, unintentional drowning deaths have increased in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC researchers reported Tuesday.