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A study of more than 24,000 health care personnel found that community contact with COVID-19 increased the risk for being seropositive for SARS-CoV-2, but workplace exposure did not, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

An exhaled breath test that uses high-pressure photon ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry accurately identified patients with lung cancer, according to recent data in JAMA Network Open.

As COVID-19 cases begin to rise again, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, pleaded with Americans to “just please hold on a little while longer” and “get vaccinated when you can.”

An increased incidence of venous thromboembolism, or VTE, among patients with COVID-19 has been observed since the early days of the pandemic.

The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals increased significantly during the pandemic, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Last April, clinicians in London reported a cluster of eight children in 10 days who developed hyperinflammatory shock with multiorgan involvement, which they described in The Lancet as being similar to Kawasaki disease shock syndrome.

Women who receive care at hospitals with higher financial incentives for cesarean section may be more likely to undergo cesarean deliveries, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

About half of the first-year positions that were offered in the 2021 Main Residency Match were in primary care, family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, and most of these positions have been filled, according to the National Resident Matching Program.

Although hospitals in the United States reported experiencing strain during the 2017-2018 influenza epidemic, they did not consider pandemic preparedness planning a high priority, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Surpassing the previous record of cases reported for 2016, the United States reached another all-time high with 2,161 confirmed cases of malaria in 2017, data published in MMWR showed.