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A meta-analysis of 7 real-world studies found maternal RSVpreF 78% effective against RSV LRTI hospitalization in infants up to 6 months.

Pumpkin carving accounts for 55% of Halloween ED injuries; AAOS outlines prevention tips for carving, costumes, and trick-or-treating.

Poison center reports of intentional school exposures rose 287% in elementary and 112% in middle school children from 2000 to 2024.

Review some of the top stories from the Contemporary Pediatrics website over the last week, and catch up on anything you may have missed.

Schools without stock epinephrine were over 4 times as likely to lack a device in an allergic emergency, a survey of 349 school nurses found.

In a matched cohort of children aged 6 and younger with EoE, dupilumab was linked to less incident asthma than swallowed budesonide (10.5% vs 16.2%).

Non-English-speaking families were far less likely to introduce peanut by 6 months (OR, 0.21) in a 3,170-child study presented at ACAAI 2026.

In an ACAAI 2026 survey, 85% of clinicians knew food allergy panels often yield false positives, yet many ordered them for unvalidated uses.