Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Endemic COVID would not mean end of danger: WHO

The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned against the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic becoming endemic would mean the disease was no longer dangerous.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Africa CDC in talks with Pfizer for COVID treatment pill

The director of Africa's Centers for Disease Control said the organization is talking to Pfizer about bringing its COVID-19 treatment pill to the continent, which has just passed 10 million cases.

Medications

Pediatric antibiotic prescribing dropped during pandemic

(HealthDay)—In pediatric primary care practices, there was a substantial reduction in antibiotic prescribing, beginning in April 2020, which was mainly due to a reduction in prescriptions at visits for respiratory tract ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Childhood vaccination: The benefits spread beyond children

An Australian and Canadian study has found while childhood COVID vaccination leads to high relative reductions in child disease and mortality, it is more beneficial to adults, particularly the unvaccinated.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Hope for children at risk of relapse in depression

Ph.D. candidate Ida Sund Morken and her colleagues at NTNU's Department of Psychology have investigated the extent to which depression in childhood increases the risk of developing new depression later, as well as looked ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China locks down city of 1.2 million after three virus cases

More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in the country's latest mass lockdown.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China says 'positive' signs as Xi'an cases ease

New COVID-19 cases in the locked-down Chinese city of Xi'an fell to their lowest in a week, health officials said Sunday, as residents face their eleventh day under strict home confinement.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Reemergent RSV epidemics could be more intense in 2021 to 2022

(HealthDay)—Pediatricians should be alert to the possibility of a large respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemic in the coming seasons, according to a study published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Network Open.

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