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(MedPage Today) -- A temperature spike during labor with epidural analgesia may indicate serious risks for the baby in an otherwise low-risk delivery, researchers found.

The FDA has approved a test to diagnose people with dengue fever, a sometimes deadly viral illness spread by mosquitoes.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Fever phobia is rampant among parents of young children, according to a myth-busting American Academy of Pediatrics report that advises against treatment every time a kid's temperature inches up....

LONDON (AP) -- Scientists have released genetically modified mosquitoes in an experiment to fight dengue fever in the Cayman Islands, British experts said Thursday....

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved an intravenous form of acetaminophen for relieving pain and fever after surgery, according to the drug's manufacturer.

(MedPage Today) -- Infrared fever detectors were more accurate than self-report of fever in both sensitivity and specificity, researchers found.

Several aid workers from Minnesota and Iowa who traveled to the Dominican Republic in 2008 contracted dengue fever, and few knew about the risk of getting the virus, researchers have reported.

More than two dozen cases of locally-acquired dengue fever have hit the resort town of Key West, Fla., in the past nine months, the CDC said.

Infants who were breast-fed at least part of the time were less likely to develop fever after routine vaccinations, a single-center study showed.

Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests....