The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created something akin to a Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale for calculating a pandemic’s severity that includes some recommendations with implications ...

In a recent cohort study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the United States of America (US) investigated the population incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) among children.

Background. Early clinical severity assessments during the 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1) overestimated clinical severity due to selection bias and other factors. We retrospectively ...

ATLANTA – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the Federal Government, have ...

Astigmatism prevalence in children increased post-pandemic, with refractive astigmatism rising from 23.4% pre-pandemic to 34.7% in 2022-2023. Corneal astigmatism prevalence rose from 59.7% ...