Pediatrics
From the Journals
Maternal COVID-19 vaccine curbs infant infection
Maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was less effective in protecting infants against omicron.
Feature
A technicality could keep RSV shots from kids in need
A glitch in congressional language may make it difficult to allow children from low-income families to get an RSV shot as readily as the well-...
Feature
COVID emergency orders ending: What’s next?
There will be cost-sharing changes for COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and certain treatments.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: Weekly cases may have doubled in early January
Preliminary CDC data show an increase in new cases that was not reported by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital...
Commentary
Managing respiratory symptoms in the ‘tripledemic’ era
Is it COVID-19, flu, or even RSV?
Latest News
Congenital CMV linked to pediatric hyperdiploid ALL
Infection in some infants may alter immune function in a way that increases vulnerability to more direct causes of ALL.
Latest News
CDC frets over further dip in kindergarten vaccination rates
The rate of vaccination overall remains high, but about 250,000 kindergarten students may not be protected against measles, the researchers...
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: ED visits and hospitalizations start to fall again
CDC data show that weekly cases have been declining since early December.
News
FDA OKs Tdap shot in pregnancy to protect newborns from pertussis
The agency has approved a second option for use during the third trimester to protect babies from whooping cough.
From the Journals
New study offers details on post-COVID pediatric illness
This pediatric illness occurs 2-6 weeks after being infected with COVID-19.
Opinion
Pediatric vaccination rates have failed to recover
Over the last half century we have produced several generations of parents who have little knowledge and certainly no personal experience with a...