Stacey Morgan Health & Wellness Nurse Coach

04/28/2024

We need to do better

A new United Hospital Fund report outlines the state of the youth mental health crisis, with more adolescents reporting symptoms. Care access is leaving the issue in limbo, with few kids seeing docs.

04/27/2024

I'm not in favor of this just trying to educate on soon-to-be requirements for schools. Stay educated

School entry requirements are associated with increases in HPV vaccine coverage among adolescents in the United States, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

04/26/2024

COVID-19 Vaccines Tied To Higher Risk Of Myocarditis/Pericarditis, Seizures Among Children, Data Suggest MedPage Today (4/24, Kahn) reports, “Only myocarditis/pericarditis and seizures occurred at higher rates in adolescents and children vaccinated for COVID-19 when compared with historical rates of those outcomes, according to an analysis of safety data from the FDA’s Biologics Effectiveness and Safety (BEST) Initiative.” Data “revealed that myocarditis or pericarditis occurred at higher rates than before the vaccines were introduced among 12- to 17-year-olds after receiving the original monovalent Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 (Comirnaty) vaccine... reported” researchers in JAMA Network Open. Additionally, they “detected a statistical signal for seizures after vaccination with the BNT162b2 vaccine among children ages 2 to 4 years and with the Moderna mRNA-1273 (Spikevax) vaccine among children ages 2 to 5 years.”

This cohort study examines prespecified health outcomes after vaccination with an ancestral monovalent COVID-19 vaccine in US children aged 6 months to 17 years.

01/01/2024