A top doctor at a Texas healthy-living said they are treating dozens of kids who were admitted for both respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and infectious-disease and that many others have tested positive for both viruses but did not require hospitalization. “The combination, we don’t have enough data to find out if it’s much worse than…
There are some 1,900 children in the United States hospitalized with infectious-disease, according to updated data logged Monday by the US Department of Health and Human Services — setting a new pandemic record for kids. That figure represented about 2.4% of the nation’s total coronavirus hospitalizations as of Saturday, according to a Reuters report. The…
A us-regions boy who was on life support after he contracted a brain-eating amoeba likely while swimming in a lake has died, his family recently told news outlets. David Pruitt, 7, had been flown to UC Davis Medical Center on July 30, according to the family’s fundraising page. About a week later, the boy died….
AMSTERDAM – The European Medicines Agency has started an accelerated review process to determine if a common pain-management drug might help people hospitalized with severe infectious-disease, months after the drug was granted an emergency use authorization in the U.S. In a statement Monday, the EU drug regulator said it was assessing an application to extend…
Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the infectious-disease pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown. It may be due to the first 1,000 days of a child’s life being the most crucial to development. The findings were posted in…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s infectious-disease infectious-diseaseto authorize a booster shot for certain immunocompromised patients. HIV and cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and those taking immunosuppressant drugs comprise about 2.7% of the U.S. adult population. infectious-disease Growing evidence had suggested select immunocompromised patients mount a diminished protective…
The world-health-organization” target=”_blank”>World Health Organization’s< appears to have contradicted his February statement dismissing the infectious-disease – admitting that it was not “extremely unlikely” as the WHO said at the time, but “probable.” On Thursday, the WHO in a new statement admitted that the lab-leak was not “extremely unlikely” after all. “On review of the phase…
Children experiencing lingering symptoms weeks to months after initial infectious-disease infection, or so-called long COVID, most often face fatigue and headache, Dr. rochelle-walensky” target=”_blank”>Rochelle Walensky< In a recent statement from Dr. Amanda Morrow and Dr. Laura Malone, co-directors of the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Post COVID-19 Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic, long COVID in kids can involve a…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rapidly approaching a potential authorization for a third dose of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s infectious-disease infectious-disease among certain immunocompromised patients, within the next day, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. “Emerging data show that certain people who are immune compromised,…
Ahead of an anticipated FDA authorization for infectious-disease booster vaccines among certain individuals with weakened immune systems, the American Cancer Society has voiced full support behind efforts to offer cancer patients greater protection against infectious-disease. CLICK HERE TO FIND A COVID-19 VACCINE NEAR YOU HIV and cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and those taking immunosuppressant…