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For children with hematologic malignancies, a fever may indicate a deadly bloodstream infection and should be addressed as soon as possible.

From 2012 to 2018, bronchoscopy use increased among hospitalized patients in the U.S. treated with invasive mechanical ventilation, researchers reported in Chest.

Adults undergoing bariatric surgery are more likely to choose sleeve gastrectomy over gastric bypass if more sleeve gastrectomies were performed in their state during the prior year, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

More adults with type 2 diabetes achieved guideline-recommended strategies for stroke prevention in 2018 compared with 2001, but further improvements are needed, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance was underutilized in more than 80% of patients with cirrhosis, with lack of clinician orders and lack of patient adherence cited as common screening barriers, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Physicians may overlook substantial symptoms in certain patients undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer, especially those who are young, Black or of “other” race or ethnicity, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology.

Advances in cancer treatment during the past half-century have achieved one of the fundamental goals of oncology: longer survival.

ATLANTA — In this video exclusive, Terry Smith, MD, discusses results of an analysis of clinical trial data on blood glucose effects associated with teprotumumab therapy for thyroid eye disease.

Women exposed to higher concentrations of a class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are at increased risk for incident hypertension, researchers reported.

Both exogenous hyperthyroidism and exogenous hypothyroidism were linked to an elevated risk for cardiovascular mortality, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.