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In a Norwegian cohort of more than 200,000 children, maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy was not associated with higher overall rates of childhood neurologic or neurodevelopmental disorders, although follow-up remained relatively short.

A long-term analysis of nearly 160,000 US postmenopausal women found that brain and central nervous system cancer risk increased with higher residential radon concentrations, adding to limited evidence that radon may affect organs beyond the lung.

Extensively drug-resistant Shigella has increased in US surveillance, with sexual transmission emerging as an important route among some populations. Rising multidrug resistance may complicate treatment, although many infections remain self-limited.

In a prospective cohort of more than 112,000 French adults, higher intake of several commonly used food preservatives was associated with increased risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, though the observational design cannot determine whether the additives themselves caused the observed outcomes.

Among nearly 1 million UK adults, preference for very hot beverages and consumption of at least six hot drinks daily were associated with higher esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk, but not materially with adenocarcinoma.

Invasive pneumococcal disease declined among US children across vaccine eras, but incidence remained substantially higher among those with chronic medical or immunocompromising conditions, with relative disparities widening over the 25-year claims-based study.