News & Updates

MIMS Doctor brings you extensive coverage of the Asia Pneumonia Summit & MasterClass in Vaccinology 2025, held recently in Taipei, Taiwan. Check out the latest updates on RSV, pneumococcal disease, new vaccines, plus thought-provoking insights from respiratory experts. [READ THE FULL REPORT] 

A recent study has found that individuals with obesity had more severe COVID-19 during the ancestral and pre-Omicron waves, but not during the Omicron wave.

Early use of antibiotics among children may lead to several health concerns, including asthma and later infections during childhood years, suggests a study.

In a large cross-sectional study evaluating individuals hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and COVID-19, one in 10 patients hospitalized for RSV had a concurrent acute cardiovascular (CV) event, and the odds of cardiac events were substantially higher in RSV vs COVID-19 hospitalizations.