No Class-Specific Early-Life Antibiotics Linked to Allergy, With Moath Hattab, MD

In a multicenter retrospective cohort of 423 children exposed to antibiotics in the first 6 months of life, nearly one-third (29.6%) were reported to have developed 

 in later childhood, with no clear association by antibiotic class or number of classes used.

“The absence of a class specific signal suggests that within antibiotic exposed infants, they couldn't identify one common antibiotic class that consistently increased or decreased later allergy risk, which is consistent with most previous studies, indicating no less specific association, but a general association between antibiotics and allergy,” lead investigator Moath Hattab, MD, from An-Najah National University, told 

The analysis revisits a longstanding clinical concern: whether early microbiome disruption meaningfully alters allergic risk trajectories. Another study published this year showed that early-life gut bacteria were linked to a lower food allergy risk and identified the strongest drivers of colonization with allergy-protective gut bacteria in infancy, which included vaginal delivery, exclusive breastfeeding, and early exposure to siblings.

Hattab and colleagues hypothesized that antibiotic use in infants would alter the microbiota and, as a result, would increase allergy risk.

 The study, conducted across 3 hospitals in the West Bank, Palestine, from April 2024 to January 2025, included 423 children (mean age, 7.33 years; 62.41% males) who had received antibiotic treatment within the first 6 months of life. The most frequently prescribed antibiotics were Beta-lactams: cefotaxime (78.49%) and ampicillin (63.59%).

Early-life antibiotics led to allergies in 29.55% of the sample. The most common manifestations of allergies included skin reactions (70.4%), wheezing (16.8%), and respiratory symptoms (10.4%); frequent triggers were food (10.17%) and dust (7.33%). The team observed a significant decrease in allergy with increasing age (

The study identified no significant link between the number of antibiotics used and the development of allergies (

 =.45). The analysis also did not show an association between the class of antibiotics and allergy development, except for Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole (

“We saw a small signal suggesting lower allergy odds with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole as well,” Hattab said. “Because this exposure was uncommon, and the study is observational, it's not practice-changing. It's best viewed as a research signal to test a larger prospective data set.”

Hattab M, Sarrees YA, Sous M, et al. Early-life antibiotics and childhood allergy: a multi-center cohort. 

Pedersen S. HCPLive. Early-Life Gut Bacteria Linked to Lower Food Allergy Risk, With Susanne Pedersen. Published on February 5, 2026. Accessed on February 13, 2026. 

https://www.hcplive.com/view/early-life-gut-bacteria-linked-lower-food-allergy-risk-susanne-pedersen

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Welcome to The HCPFive, your go-to roundup for the latest healthcare news and breakthroughs, curated specifically for busy healthcare professionals.

Each week, we highlight 5 key developments or headlines from healthcare that you need to know—whether it's a cutting-edge treatment, regulatory updates, or innovations shaping the future of medicine. This week's top stories include the US Food and Drug Administrations’ acceptance of a New Drug Application from Takeda for oveporexton in narcolepsy type 1 and issuance of a Complete Response Letter for Disc Medicine’s bitopertin as a treatment for erythropoietic protoporphyria as well as phase 2 data for ribupatide in obesity, phase 2 data for verekitug in severe asthma, and phase 3 data for oral infigratinib in children living with achondroplasia.

With The HCPFive, you'll get the essential takeaways to stay informed and ahead of the curve. Here’s your quick dive into the top stories for the week of February 08, 2026—let’s jump in!

FDA Accepts NDA, Grants Priority Review for Oveporexton to Treat Narcolepsy Type 1

On February 10, 2026, Takeda announced that the FDA accepted the Company’s New Drug Application (NDA) and granted Priority Review to oveporexton (TAK-861) for the treatment of narcolepsy type 1. The investigational oral orexin receptor (OX2R)-selective agonist addresses the underlying orexin deficiency that causes narcolepsy type 1 by restoring orexin signaling.

The FDA assigned oveporexton a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target date in the third quarter of 2026.

FDA Issues Complete Response Letter to Bitopertin For Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

On February 13, 2026, the FDA issued a Complete Response Letter for the New Drug Application (NDA) of Disc Medicine’s bitopertin as a treatment for patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria. The Agency acknowledged sufficient evidence of reduced whole blood metal-free protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) from the AURORA and BEACON trials, but stated a need to see results of the ongoing phase 3 APOLLO study before bitopertin receives approval. The trial began enrollment in March 2025 and has an estimated completion timeline of October 2026.

Ribupatide, An Oral Dual GLP-1/GIP, Achieves Weight Loss in Phase 2 Obesity Trial

On February 10, 2026, Hengrui Pharma and Kailera Therapeutics announced positive topline data from Hengrui’s phase 2 clinical trial of once-daily oral ribupatide (HRS9531 tablet; KAI-9531-T), a GLP-1/GIP receptor dual agonist peptide, in adults living with obesity in China.

Results showed participants receiving oral ribupatide demonstrated a mean weight reduction from baseline of up to 12.1% at 26 weeks based on the efficacy estimand with no observed plateau in weight loss, and vomiting was reported in ≤ 11.4% of participants taking oral ribupatide.

VALIANT: Verekitug Reduces Average Annual Asthma Flare-Ups in Phase 2 Trial

On February 11, 2026, Upstream Bio announced positive topline results from the phase 2 VALIANT clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of verekitug in adults with severe asthma. Results showed VALIANT met the study’s primary endpoint of a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in the annualized asthma exacerbation rate (AAER) with both every 12 week (q12w) and every 24 week (q24w) dosing, with verekitug demonstrating a reduction in AAER of 56% (

<.0003) when dosed at 100 mg q12w and 39% (

<.02) when dosed at 400 mg q24w, as compared with placebo.

Oral Infigratinib Meets Annualized Height Velocity Endpoint in Phase 3 Achondroplasia Trial

On February 12, 2026, BridgeBio Pharma announced positive topline results from PROPEL 3, a global phase 3 study of oral infigratinib in children living with achondroplasia, showing it met the primary endpoint of change from baseline in annualized height velocity (AHV) at week 52 (

Based on these data, FDA NDA and Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) submissions are planned in the second half of 2026 for achondroplasia. Additionally, given the strength of the PROPEL 3 data, BridgeBio described plans to accelerate the development of oral infigratinib in hypochondroplasia, and is enrolling the observational run-in for the phase 3 trial.

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Ruchika Goel, MD, is a professor and associate vice chair of research at SIU School of Medicine.

Defining the goal of platelet transfusion, prevention or treatment, may be as important as the platelet count itself.

in neonates and older children, reduced platelet increment (PI) did not lead to worse clinical outcomes, suggesting that this marker does not precipitate an increased, automatic need for transfusion.

, professor and associate vice chair of research at SIU School of Medicine, to glean key clinical takeaways from the findings.

How should clinicians and Transfusion services think about balancing transfusion safety measures with platelet effectiveness and pediatric care?

That’s an excellent question, and I want to emphasize it overall by rechecking: what is our goal? Number one, is it prevention of bleeding in an otherwise stable patient, or in an actively bleeding patient, or a high-risk patient? Is it hemostasis? Are you trying to do bleeding control?

So reassessing what our goal is and not mixing the two is very important. Looking for any other non–product-related causes of poor increment is also important. For example, any reason for high platelet consumption, infection, inflammation, DIC, splenic sequestration, medications, or any other reasons. For example, a patient being on ECMO—these are other reasons where you could have poor increment causes, and they need to be reassessed.

If there are further transfusions, consider looking at the overall clinical situation and assessing the requirement. That should be the decision-making criteria, not simply a suboptimal increment in a platelet count.

Do your findings suggest that we need to rethink what defines successful platelet transfusion in children beyond simply achieving a target platelet count?

Yes, I think this study emphasizes that, as well as the accompanying editorial by Dr Megan Delaney. They really push toward redefining what we call a successful platelet transfusion, really being beyond hitting a target platelet count, a more clinically meaningful definition of what we are trying to achieve.

For example, what I would say a successful platelet transfusion would be is something that achieves the intended clinical objective, whether it’s prophylaxis of bleeding or attempted bleeding control, while we have minimal transfusion burden. So optimizing our overall transfusion burden and making sure we have no or minimal transfusion-related harm while our overall clinical objective is met, and not using a specific number or an increment as our goal of a successful platelet transfusion.

So in practice, that would mean understanding our endpoints, such as hemostatic readiness, bleeding events, transfusion reactions and complications, and the overall transfusion burden. These are the factors that need to be taken into account as what we call a successful platelet transfusion.

What are the limitations to this study and how should clinicians interpret them?

The only thing I’d like to add is that readers should go in detail with the study limitations as well. This is a very large, very unique database, and there are very few such powerful databases that can assess the donor as well as the product and ultimately link it to clinical outcomes in the recipient. So there are several strengths, but there are also several limitations.

Ultimately, it is an electronic health record–driven result. We have highlighted several limitations of the study, and we do want to emphasize that there is a need for more prospective studies and perhaps a need for continued randomized controlled trials to study several clinical outcomes.

So while we address several strengths of the study, I want to redirect the reader to look at the limitations of the study and incorporate those into what they can do in their routine clinical practice, which should be evidence-based.

Goel R, Karam O, Warden DE, et al. Platelet Transfusion Practices and Outcomes in Neonates and Children. 

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.54531

Goel R. When Platelet Increments Matter, With Ruchika Goel, MD. Hcplive.com. Published February 13, 2026. Accessed February 14, 2026. 

https://www.hcplive.com/view/when-platelet-increments-matter-with-ruchika-goel-md

In pediatric platelet transfusions, what counts as success depends on the clinical context and treatment goals, not just the platelet count.

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Rethinking What Defines Success in Pediatric Platelet Transfusion, With Ruchika Goel, MD

Dawn Eichenfield, MD, PhD, is a dermatologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

, Dawn Eichenfield, MD, PhD, of Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, spoke on-site with the 

 team regarding the rapidly shifting pediatric dermatology landscape, highlighting both therapeutic updates and various types of practical clinical considerations.

, Eichenfield emphasized the expanding set of potential systemic options now available for children, especially biologics for psoriasis.

 In this interview segment regarding additional sessions Eichenfield participated in, she pointed to the value of understanding a biologic’s mechanism of action, ongoing questions around disease modification in atopic dermatitis, and various practical pearls, including strategies to reduce injection-related anxiety and discomfort among children.

The following transcription summarizes Eichenfield’s on-site interview with 

 We would like to know more about some of the biggest takeaways from your Maui Derm workshop, the master class in pediatric dermatology.

Today, we did a workshop where we got to talk a lot more about taking care of kids. I actually talked about hair disorders, and based on looking at kids with telogen effluvium as well as alopecia areata. Actually, rarely, we sometimes get scarring disorders in pediatric dermatology as well. Then it was really nice, because we had a round table discussion with the other folks who were talking during the pediatric master class workshop. We got a chance to kind of see how other people approach really bad cases of androgenetic alopecia or alopecia areata, and how they dose their minoxidil. What do they do? First, topical minoxidil, then oral minoxidil. So it was a really, it was a really great, intriguing discussion that we had.

Would you go a bit more into depth on the dosing of minoxidil that you discussed there?

You look at the pediatric literature…there was actually a recent PD study where they looked at it, and it was an international study looking at androgenetic areata. It was really interesting because in that study, most people were on topical minoxidil. Nowadays, we're starting to use a lot more oral minoxidil. So I would say, if you looked at things like five, ten years ago, people were probably just doing topical minoxidil. But now, [we use oral minoxidil more], just because we feel like low-dose oral minoxidil is a lot safer and we have a lot more evidence for its use.

Also, we're definitely using it more in our pediatric and adolescent populations. So generally, for a girl, we probably would start with a quarter of a tablet. A tablet is like 2.5 milligrams. So a quarter is like 0.625. Then for males, we would start probably with 1.25, and of course, this is in kids who don't have other medical issues. No heart issues, no issues with their blood pressure, not on other concurrent medications that would interfere or have other side effects that are related to the minoxidil.

I think the big [takeaway] is really just the fact that we sometimes underdiagnose pediatric androgenetic alopecia, and sometimes we can misdiagnose some of our pediatric hair disorders. It's also very important to come to the correct diagnosis so that we can facilitate the correct management.

What are some of the key takeaways about HSV that you hope clinicians walk away with?

 I think the case that I presented is a very interesting case in that the clinical presentation is of an immunocompromised patient. It's always when you're looking at blisters, hemorrhagic blisters, hemorrhagic crusting, or ones that look punched out when you definitely want to consider HSV. Sometimes it could be something you're not even thinking of, and it can mimic some other diseases as well. So, that's definitely something to think about for the measles case. I think in our in this day and age, when some parents are not sure about vaccinations, and when it's kind of political and controversial, I think it's important for healthcare providers to know what measles looks like, and to really consider that in their differential where they're approaching pediatric patients with rashes.

Then, finally, we covered Leishmania. It's really interesting because I live in San Diego, and we definitely get a lot of patients who kind of come across the border. We've had a number of refugees who come through, who've actually had more kinds of tropical or exotic diseases. Leishmania is one of them, because they kind of came through the Darién Gap, while we were getting some refugees from that area.

Moving to a broader subject, what are you most excited or intrigued about in the field of dermatology in 2026 and beyond?

I think there's a lot that's in development, both in science and in clinical medicine, that we're going to be excited about for pediatric dermatology. Anything genetic-related is always exciting, because we always want to be able to better diagnose our patients before we start treatments. Then finally, as I had mentioned before, our patients don't like shots. So, some of the oral biologics coming out that will be very exciting to us, there are companies that are working on looking at biologics where you're going to be able to space out how often you get the shots. That, of course, will be very interesting to our patients, because no one likes shots. I think we have so much to look forward to this year and the coming years in dermatology.

The quotes used in this interview transcript were edited for clarity.

Eichenfield had no relevant disclosures of note for this discussion.

Eichenfield D, Frieden I, Treat J, et al. Fallon Friedlander S, Treat J, et al. Master Classes in Pediatric Dermatology. Presented at the 2026 Maui Derm Hawaii Conference, January 25-29.

Eichenfield D. Spotlighting Pediatric Dermatology Updates for 2026, With Dawn Eichenfield, MD, PhD. HCPLive. January 29, 2026. Accessed February 13, 2026. 

https://www.hcplive.com/view/spotlighting-pediatric-dermatology-updates-2026-dawn-eichenfield-md-phd

Eichenfield speaks in this interview about several key takeaways drawn from her master class in pediatric dermatology at Maui Derm Hawaii.

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects an estimated 35 million people in the United States, yet it remains persistently underdiagnosed, underrecognized, and often addressed late in its course.

Despite a wave of therapeutic innovation over the past decade, including SGLT2 inhibitors, non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, and GLP-1 receptor agonists, most patients continue to enter care at stage 3b or later, when significant and often irreversible kidney damage has already occurred. Against this backdrop, a recent multidisciplinary virtual forum from 

, led by Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH, codirector of the Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, convened nephrologists from academic and private practice settings across the country to examine a central question: how do we move CKD detection and management upstream?

The discussion centered on operationalizing early identification of CKD using routine biomarkers such as estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), and on improving risk stratification before patients ever see a nephrologist. Participants highlighted national data showing persistent gaps in CKD awareness, particularly among younger individuals, women, and racial and ethnic minority populations.

Even among patients with documented CKD in the medical record, awareness remains low. Compounding the problem is a limited nephrology workforce, making universal early referral neither feasible nor necessary.

Instead, the conversation emphasized redefining early CKD as a cardiovascular risk condition and embedding screening within broader cardio-kidney-metabolic care. With cardiovascular disease remaining the leading cause of death in CKD, panelists argued that early kidney abnormalities, especially albuminuria, should be framed not simply as markers of future dialysis risk, but as powerful indicators of systemic vascular injury.

In an era of disease-modifying therapies capable of slowing progression and reducing cardiovascular events, the forum explored how clinicians, health systems, and payers might rethink detection strategies, referral pathways, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Throughout the discussion, participants repeatedly returned to the reality that most referrals still occur when eGFR falls < 45 mL/min/1.73 m², while earlier-stage patients, particularly those with preserved eGFR but significant albuminuria, are often missed. UACR testing remains underutilized outside of diabetes care, and confusion persists among primary care clinicians regarding the interpretation of albuminuria versus total proteinuria.

Several panelists described educational initiatives aimed at improving primary care understanding, including reframing albuminuria as the “troponin of the kidney,” yet acknowledged that education alone may not be sufficient. Workforce shortages, time constraints in 20-minute visits, EHR fatigue, and limited health literacy all create structural barriers to earlier detection and intervention.

Ultimately, the forum highlighted a need for system-level change. Potential solutions discussed included risk-based referral models rather than rigid eGFR thresholds, automated EHR or AI-driven lab triggers, payer-aligned quality metrics tied to UACR screening, and community-based outreach in high-risk populations.

The broader shift toward a cardio-kidney-metabolic framework was seen as an opportunity to align specialties around shared therapies and shared risk reduction goals. However, panelists were candid: without stronger incentives, clearer risk stratification tools, and expanded workforce capacity, the promise of early CKD “remission” through modern therapies may remain unrealized.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States, 2023. May 15, 2024. Accessed February 11, 2026.

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The FDA denied accelerated approval for bitopertin, citing a need for evidence on clinical benefit from the ongoing phase 3 APOLLO trial. 


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Developers emphasize plain language, explicit next steps, and clear limits to ensure the PLCOm2012-based tool supports, rather than replaces, formal lung cancer screening.


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Younossi emphasizes the need for NIT-based risk stratification for MASLD, citing his research supporting their widespread adoption across clinical settings.

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Low post-transfusion platelet increments did not predict mortality or length of stay in pediatric patients.

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