Pediatrics News

• Vaccination Alone Won't Counter Rise of Resistant Variants: Study Modeling showed that nonpharmaceutical interventions against pandemic viral infection maintained during vaccination campaigns can counter the emergence of vaccine-resistant mutations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 30, 2021
• Pentagon, Federal Government Push for Employee Vaccinations The federal workforce must show proof of vaccination. If unvaccinated, the employee will have to wear a mask in almost all circumstances, physically distance, and have regular testing.
  WebMD Health News, July 30, 2021
• Gut Microbiome May Offer Novel Bacterial Markers in Kids With Autism Children with autism spectrum disorder may have a distinctive and underdeveloped gut microbiome that isn't related to their eating habits, a small Chinese study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• US School Masks Debate Erupts Anew Weeks Before Classes Resume In pandemic-pummeled Florida, angry parents clashed with Broward County school board members this week over whether their children will be forced to wear masks in class.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• 'War Has Changed': CDC Says Delta as Contagious as Chicken Pox Internal CDC documents provide new language on how serious the delta variant transmission rate appears to be.
  Medscape Medical News, July 30, 2021
• Kidney Transplant Outcomes Good in Undocumented Immigrants Patients with undocumented status who receive kidney transplants show encouraging outcomes similar to, or in some cases better than, the general transplant population.
  Medscape Medical News, July 30, 2021
• Do I Have Bad Breath? A New Sensor Will Check Scientists are developing a new device to check breath for hydrogen sulfide, the gas that prompts the unpleasant smell from the mouth.
  WebMD Health News, July 30, 2021
• Idaho Governor Signs Onto Major Abortion-Rights Challenge Gov. Brad Little joined Republican governors from 11 other states in supporting a Mississippi law that would ban abortion at 15 weeks.
  Associated Press, July 29, 2021
• 'A Few Mutations Away': The Threat of a Vaccine-Proof Variant How close is the world to seeing a SARS-CoV-2 variant that gets around protection from current COVID-19 vaccines?
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• Pentagon, Disney Revive Mask Mandates Following CDC Change The new guidance is a significant shift from the CDC's announcement in May that fully vaccinated Americans could skip wearing a mask in most settings.
  WebMD Health News, July 29, 2021
• Fighting Fauci: From Ridicule to Death Threats, Attacks Continue As one of the key government officials relaying information about the pandemic to the public, Fauci is front and center. That often brings with it the risk of scorn, and sometimes serious threats.
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• CDC Reverses Guidance on Testing for Fully Vaccinated People The CDC previously said fully vaccinated people didn't need testing after exposure unless they showed symptoms.
  WebMD Health News, July 29, 2021
• Monsanto Told to Pay Teachers $185M Over Chemical Exposure Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, said the company disagreed with the verdict and may appeal.
  Associated Press, July 29, 2021
• New Vaccinations Increasing in COVID Hot Spots States struggling with alarming COVID-19 outbreaks are now vaccinating people at very high rates, an analysis of CDC data by Bloomberg shows.
  WebMD Health News, July 29, 2021
• Physician Stress Having Effect on Patients, Future Docs: Survey Eighty percent of patient respondents witnessed their doctor stressed and overwhelmed; nearly half don't want their child to become a physician or nurse.
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• Young Adults Born Small for Gestational Age Have Reduced Exercise Capacity, Heart Structure Changes Young adults born small for gestational age had lower exercise capacity than their non-SGA peers, as well as right ventricular remodeling, in an observational study in Spain
  Reuters Health Information, July 27, 2021
• Young Lured to Tobacco Addiction Via E-cigarettes: WHO The tobacco industry's sleek marketing is attracting youngsters to e-cigarettes which can lead to tobacco addiction, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 27, 2021
• Hyperimmune Globulin Fails to Prevent Congenital CMV Infection Administering hyperimmune globulin to pregnant women who tested positive for CMV did not reduce CMV infections or deaths among their fetuses or newborns, according to results from a randomized controlled trial.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2021
• 'Shocking' Early Complications From Teen-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Almost two thirds of study participants had at least one diabetes complication in young adulthood, around 15 years after diagnosis. A handful died, including one from heart attack and one due to kidney failure.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2021
• Poll: Half of US Adults Uncomfortable Seeing Unvaccinated Doctor About half of adults in the United States say that they would be uncomfortable seeing a doctor who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a recent WebMD/Medscape poll.
  WebMD Health News, July 28, 2021