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Both immunizations are highly effective at keeping kids and babies healthy.
Two-thirds of trainees use AI in their work, despite only 1 in 5 having received AI education.
Investigators say the results could alter global treatment guidelines for children with severe pneumonia.
The response to the current large outbreak is a communications failure, not a failure of the investigation.
A new study suggests that a diagnostic disparity exists between Black and White patients, despite having similar long-COVID symptom profiles.
A total of 1.6 million dozen eggs shipped to six states have been recalled.
The trial is assessing the safety and immune response of an investigational vaccine targeting Bundibugyo virus.
The results indicate that enlisting parents in advocacy efforts could help with awareness campaigns.
Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of infection with a life-threatening illness called invasive pneumococcal disease.
Pennsylvania has had 27 new cases this week, and the US is in territory not charted since 1991.
Trace-back investigation finds new cases in 4 additional states: Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.
Sean Kaufman's skepticism of vaccines may be too fringe for the Louisiana senator, whose support is crucial for confirmation.
While uncertainty was the dominant finding in a new Annenberg survey, relatively few respondents incorrectly believed that the CDC recommends risky vaccines during pregnancy.
Sri Lanka has reported more than 80,000 cases of the mosquito-borne virus this year.
The trace-back investigation for the new outbreak is underway as cases mount across the country.
The findings suggest it might be time to deploy vaccine from the global stockpile, even though the doses aren't a perfect match for the current outbreak.
The right response to an open question is to investigate it: fund the work, design the study so that it can come out either way, and wait for the answer.
Data from 82 countries show resistance rates in pediatric bacterial infections have risen significantly over the past two decades and will worsen over the next decade.
Rates of low birth weight, small for gestational age, death, and studied medical conditions were lower than before the pandemic.
The case-fatality rate for the Ebola outbreak is 40%.
