After a brief warm welcome from our host Jason Newland, MD, from Washington University in St. Louis, the conference began with the much requested “ASP Basic Workshop”. Sarah Parker, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado, explained how to use the...

In the recent issue of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Paydar-Darian et al examine the role of lumbar puncture (LP) on management of children with facial palsy in a Lyme endemic area (1). The authors performed a...

Following the introduction of routine childhood vaccination against rotavirus, a common cause of diarrheal illness, more than 380,000 children avoided hospitalization for diarrhea from 2008 to 2013 in the U.S., thus saving an estimated $1.2 billion in...