Pediatrics News

• US CDC Says COVID Vaccine-Related Myocarditis Much Lower for Children Than Teens The CDC on Thursday said rates of reported heart inflammation linked to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been much lower in 5- to 11-year-old boys than in adolescents and young men, and were only slightly elevated above normal.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• RSV Kills 100,000 Kids Under Age 5 a Year Worldwide A new study is the first to filter RSV deaths into narrow age brackets. Researchers found that nearly half — 45,000 deaths — were in infants under 6 months old.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Biden Uses Defense Production Act to Address Baby Formula Shortage The president used the Defense Production Act to require suppliers to direct resources to baby formula makers before other customers.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Number of US Child Hepatitis Cases Rises to 180 The cases come from 36 states and territories over the last 7 months.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Case of Monkeypox Confirmed in Massachusetts The man has been hospitalized since May 12, and the diagnosis took 6 days to make because the disease is so rare.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Global Smoking Rates Fall for First Time, but Rise for Kids, Africa: Report Smoking rates have declined globally for the first time on record, according to a new report on tobacco use from a public health campaign group and US academics.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• This Rural County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Meigs County, Tennessee, reported one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the South for much of the past year. But those reports were wrong because of a data error.
  Kaiser Health News, May 19, 2022
• CDC Calls for One Third of Americans to Mask Up Again CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, and other officials held their first White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing since April 5 because of the 'steady increase in COVID cases' over the past 5 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Japanese Man Gambles Away Town's COVID Relief Funds A Japanese man went on a gambling spree after COVID-19 relief funds worth 46.3 million yen — about $358,000 in US dollars — accidentally ended up in his bank account.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Mozambique Detects First Case of Polio in 30 Years Mozambique on Wednesday declared a polio outbreak after the virus was detected in a child living in the northeastern Tete region, the first case of the poliovirus in the country in almost three decades, the World Health Organization said.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Who Is Most Concerned With Self-presentation on Social Media? How self-presentation on social media is influenced by sociodemographic variables, lifestyle, and personality.
  First Look, May 19, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• New Pandemic Peril? Pretending It's Over as Case Numbers Rise Just because many people seem more than ready to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us doesn't mean it's really over.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Children and COVID: New Cases Up by 50% The new-case count was over 93,000 for the week of May 6–12, compared with 62,000 the previous week.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Death Toll on US Roads Rose to Almost 43,000 in 2021 The death toll jumped 10.5% from 2020 as Americans returned to driving after COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and isolation.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Nestle Flies Baby Formula Supplies to US From Europe Nestle is flying baby formula supplies to the United States from the Netherlands and Switzerland to alleviate the shortage in US supermarkets, the company said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2022
• AACE 2022 Biotin: Good for Hair and Nails, Bad for Thyroid Lab Tests New study supports prior finding that about 7% of the population uses products containing biotin in doses high enough to interfere with many laboratory tests, including those of thyroid function.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Omicron Breakthrough Cases Boost Protection, Studies Say The vaccinated people who had a breakthrough case of Omicron produced antibodies that helped protect against coronavirus variants.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Youth Mental Health Hospitalization Rates Rose in 2020 Girls accounted for a greater proportion of hospitalizations than boys, and girls were more than twice as likely to be prescribed mood and anxiety medication than boys.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• What We Know About Shuttered Baby Formula Plant And even bigger questions remain unanswered, including what caused the contamination and whether U.S. regulators could have alleviated the current formula shortage by stepping in sooner.
  Associated Press, May 18, 2022