A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the group has advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for all Americans, will discuss whether to change ...

This week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the group that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for all Americans, will discuss whether ...

The evidence that children were better off being vaccinated against covid-19 than getting infected by it during the pandemic just got even stronger. The largest-ever study, involving nearly 14 million ...

In the mid-1990s, researchers identified the viral helicase–primase enzyme complex as a target for a potential anti-herpes simplex virus (HSV) therapy. Three decades later, the first promising ...

Heightened risk seen for many conditions, including myocarditis, blood clots, kidney damage, abnormal heart rhythms, headache, and fatigue after second COVID-19 infection in children and adolescents.

A retrospective cohort study assessed the risk for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis in children and adolescents after a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during the omicron period. HealthDay ...

TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Children and adolescents are twice as likely to experience long COVID after being infected for the second time, according to a study published online Sept. 30 ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

Children are twice as likely to develop long COVID after two COVID-19 infections, compared with children who’ve only had COVID-19 once, according to a new study co-authored by a doctor at Lurie ...

The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck has covered long Covid since the condition first emerged.

The hepatitis B vaccine has emerged as the latest flashpoint as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines. The vaccine is routinely given to babies ...