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1 week ago | 
healio.com | Andrew Rhoades |Sara Kellner
Key takeaways: The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling “paves the way” for additional restrictions on sexual and reproductive health services, experts said. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 6-3 to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender children and adolescents. In the majority opinion for United States v.
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2 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Caitlyn Stulpin |Sara Kellner
Key takeaways:The committee is made up of independent advisors who make recommendations to the CDC. Several of the new members rose to prominence as critics of the country’s COVID-19 response. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new members to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, including several who rose to prominence as critics of vaccines or the U.S. response to COVID-19.
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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Key takeaways: Compared with current fluoridation rates, removing fluoride increased tooth decay by 7.5 percentage points. Researchers said fluoride removal would cost $9.8 billion over 5 years and $19.4 billion in 10 years. Researchers estimated that removing fluoride from public water supplies would cost the United States $9.8 billion over 5 years to treat increased dental caries and tooth decay in children and adolescents.
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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Key takeaways: Poor appetite, trouble sleeping, cough and runny nose were the most prominent symptoms in infants and toddlers. Preschool-aged children with long COVID most often experienced daytime sleepiness and dry cough. Dry and wet cough, trouble sleeping and low energy during the day were the most prominent symptoms associated with long COVID in children aged 5 years or younger, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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4 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Key takeaways: Stocking epinephrine was the cheapest and most cost-effective strategy for most summer camps. In smaller camps and camps with few children with food allergies, individually provided epinephrine was preferred. Stocking unassigned epinephrine appears to be the most cost-effective strategy for treating anaphylaxis at summer camps, according to an analysis published in Pediatrics.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Stephen Feller |Sara Kellner
Key takeaways:HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. The announcement comes amid a flurry of new federal directives for the shots. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that the CDC will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Key takeaways: States began disenrolling children and young adults from Medicaid in March 2023. Those in states with high disenrollment rates were more likely to experience disruptions in chronic medication dispensing. Children and young adults in states with high Medicaid disenrollment rates were more likely to experience disruptions in chronic medication therapy or obtain medications through private insurance or cash, according to a study.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Read more Key takeaways: Infinant Health is investigating a live biotherapeutic product to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm babies. Trials of a similar product showed a 73% lower risk for the condition among very low-birth-weight infants. The FDA recently granted orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations to Infinant Health for a live biotherapeutic product to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants, the company announced.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner
Key takeaways:An infant with a rare urea cycle disorder became the first patient to receive a personalized gene-editing therapy. His care team developed the one-of-a-kind medication in just 6 months. By the second day of his life, Kyle and Nicole Muldoon knew their newborn son was very sick. During a routine exam in the NICU, his doctor noticed his arm was shaking down slowly after being lifted, rather than falling like a typical baby.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner |Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: HHS released a review finding significant risks and few benefits of gender-affirming care for adolescents. Experts told Healio they took issue with the language, methodology and conclusions of the report. HHS published a review of gender-affirming care for minors that claimed there are significant risks associated with medical interventions and what the department called “very weak evidence of benefits.”On Jan.
