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SAN ANTONIO — Certain patients with low-risk ductal carcinoma can safely opt for active monitoring, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Advancing equitable access to palliative care will require interdisciplinary collaboration and effective communication, according to several leaders in the field.

Published results showed non-Hispanic white patients were more likely to receive guideline-concordant hip fracture care and also disproportionately benefited from their care vs. patients from historically underrepresented groups.

Affecting approximately 1% of adults worldwide, ankle arthritis is often found in patients with a history of ankle fractures and ligament injuries around the ankle joint.

Palliative care significantly improved quality of life among patients hospitalized for bone marrow transplant, according to results of a multicenter randomized trial.

More than 1 year after the world’s first partial heart transplant in a newborn boy, pediatric transplant cardiologists at Duke Health report that the donor valve tissue is growing with the child.

A retrospective study found that people with hypertension had higher systolic BP during winter vs. summer months, and that BP control rates also decreased to an extent during the winter.

Women who are pregnant and have preeclampsia worry nephrologists like Nityasree Srialluri, MD, MS, because without early detection chronic kidney disease may not be far behind.

Kidney diseases are biologically modulated by sex and can be culturally modulated by gender. There are well-described sex- and gender-specific differences in the prevalence and prognosis of some kidney diseases, the prototype of which is lupus nephritis.

The risk for bacteremia was low — just over 1% — among children and young adults with sickle cell disease who presented at the emergency department with a fever, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Network Open.