Sara Kellner

Getting COVID-19 twice doubled children and adolescents’ risk for developing long COVID, according to data from the RECOVER trial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.Before this study, Ravi Jhaveri, MD, head of the division of infectious diseases and Virginia H. Rogers Professor in Infectious Diseases at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and colleagues suspected that

Nearly 1 in 5 people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and compensated cirrhosis were prescribed a GLP-1 receptor agonist in the past decade, according to a poster presented at The Liver Meeting.GLP-1 use is growing every year and expanding to treat a wide range of conditions beyond obesity and diabetes, including noncirrhotic MASH. However, no treatments have been approved

SAN DIEGO — Most children report struggling with health care tasks like monitoring blood glucose and bolusing insulin, but what if an app could help with that? In a presentation at AIMed, Rebecca Liu, a senior studying psychobiology at University of California Los Angeles, described her idea for an app called HeroHealth that would gamify health care tasks for children with chronic illnesses like

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ childhood immunization schedule for 2026 preserves recommendations for vaccines that are no longer universally recommended under HHS’s overhaul of the CDC schedule. The AAP releases an updated vaccine schedule every year, but this is the first time in many years that it has split from the CDC schedule.

An infant in New Mexico died from Listeria that health officials believe was contracted through raw milk.Investigators could not pinpoint the exact source of the infant’s infection but believe it was from unpasteurized milk consumed by the infant’s mother during pregnancy, according to a press release from the New Mexico Department of Health.

Young adults with inflammatory bowel disease were more likely to be affected by step therapy mandates and report lower confidence in navigating insurance, compared with adults and caregivers of children with IBD, survey results showed.They also were more likely to work more hours or take on an additional job to cover costs related to care.

The White House did not nominate a new CDC director on Wednesday despite coming up against a federally imposed deadline to do so. White House Spokesperson Kush Desai told Healio that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, will continue to perform the duties of acting CDC director until a permanent replacement is selected.

BOSTON — Children with multiple complex medical conditions receive more than 5 times the amount of antibiotics compared with healthy children and double that of the elderly, according to a large study.“Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in children,” Kathleen D. Snow, MD, MPH, instructor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, told attendees

BOSTON — Nearly one-third of children with autism were diagnosed by a primary care provider, according to a study of Medicaid data from 2017 to 2019.“An autism diagnosis is often required for insurance coverage of therapy services, but long wait times delay this process,” Corey A. Gorgas, MA, research coordinator in the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at

Study: Problematic social media use worsens ADHD symptoms