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Walensky is a professor at Harvard Medical School and served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Once clinical trials showed that Covid-19 vaccines were safe and ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AAP and CDC vaccine recommendations have been mostly harmonized for 30 years. AAP guidance now deviates from the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school year by buying supplies, filling out forms and meeting teachers. This year, many ...

Covid-19 hospitalization rates have decreased over time, but about 38,000 children were hospitalized with Covid-19 during the 2023-24 season, according to the CDC report – more than 1 hospitalization ...

It's perfectly acceptable for 5- to-11-year-olds preparing to receive a vaccine against COVID-19 also to receive other protective shots they may have missing during the pandemic lockdown. For some ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has provided vaccine recommendations and published its own vaccine schedule for nearly 100 years. But it has not traditionally diverged from federal recommendations ...

WASHINGTON - The program to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years old is expected to be at full strength next week, according to the White House. "Starting the week of November 8, the kids’ ...

Children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at nearly twofold risk of developing influenza or COVID compared with children who do not have OSA, according to recent research. Adenotonsillectomy — a ...