ACIP recommends ≥1 updated COVID-19 vaccine booster for all children, adolescents
The CDC committee has set new recommendations based on children's age, vaccination status, and overall immunity health, for the 2024 - 2025 period.
What's going on with polio, monkeypox, and COVID-19
The news is full of stories about monkeypox, the recent changes to COVID-19 guidance, and the return of polio cases. What do clinicians need to know?
HIV Roundtable: Examining Aging with HIV, Multidrug Resistance, and Vaccine Development
In this episode, clinicians discuss challenges associated with these topics and offer some insights on them.
What Omicron could mean for the pandemic
Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, to discuss what's known about the variant. She also discusses the latest on the vaccine for children aged younger than 5 years.
FDA approves, authorizes updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
The federal agency advised manufacturers in June that 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines should be monovalent JN.1, with the preferred lineage being the KP.2 strain.
CDC: Rising parvovirus B19 cases
Healthcare providers should maintain heightened suspicion of parvovirus B19 in individuals presenting with symptoms, particularly those at high risk.
