Gerard Gallagher

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

HONOLULU — The results of a large observational study provided more evidence that receiving antibiotics in the first 2 years of life can increase a child’s risk for obesity, researchers reported. The study did not see a similar relationship between antibiotic use in the year leading up to a pregnancy all the way through the perinatal period, according to results presented at PAS by Sofia Ainonen, MD, a pediatric resident at the Oulu University Hospital in Oulu, Finland.

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

Read more HONOLULU — New study findings provided more promising data for primary care-based telehealth. Researchers here reported the results of a study of more than a half-million pediatric encounters for acute respiratory tract infection, which found that physicians providing telehealth services integrated into a primary care practice were even more judicious in their antibiotic prescribing than physicians who saw children in the office.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

Key takeaways:Having acute RSV raised the risk for death within a year by 2.7 times among Danish adults. There are three RSV vaccines available for use in the United States, but uptake has been sluggish. VIENNA — After decades of fits and starts, scientists finally got the world’s first vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus across the finish line in 2023.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Kristen Dowd

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world. The conference, known informally for years as ECCMID, was renamed last year for the organization that runs it — the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) — and to reflect its global focus, organizers said.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Caitlyn Stulpin |Stephen Feller |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways: HHS layoffs last week gutted a CDC lab dedicated to tracking STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. The lab is only one of three in the world that performs this function. The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including gonorrhea. “The lab ... is kind of the cornerstone of much of the work that we do,” Joseph N.