Dr. Tran shares her thoughts on PHM 2026 and the connection and communication that brought pediatricians together at this conference.

Recent randomized evidence supports considering anticoagulation discontinuation after successful atrial fibrillation ablation, but only for carefully selected patients who remain arrhythmia-free and ...

At PHM 2026, a well-attended session presented practical applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models for inpatient pediatric practice. It combined hands-on ...

Plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing, commonly called the Karius test, can identify microbial DNA in blood when conventional testing is unrevealing. Its results require selective ...

Children with medical complexity often face developmental vulnerabilities that can be worsened by hospitalization. The session recap describes how hospitals can preserve developmental opportunities by ...

I work clinically in a children’s hospital. I am the program director for a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship. But I’m not a normal hospitalist. In addition to my medical training, I have... A 54 ...

The physician editor of The Hospitalist is Weijen Chang, a pediatric and adult hospitalist at Baystate Medical Center and Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Mass., where he is an associate ...

Nashville welcomed SHM Converge 2026, and with it one of the conference’s most anticipated annual traditions: the Updates in Hospital Medicine session. Kencee Graves, MD, FHM, clinical professor of ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

The number of hospital medicine fellowships has grown over the years. At last count, there were three administrative fellowships, 40 internal medicine fellowships, 13 family practice fellowships, and ...