"Real Housewives of Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) current guidelines for treating sepsis should be retired and replaced with more performance-based measures, according to a coalition of medical ...

During sepsis, cell-free DNA concentration spikes in the bloodstream. Information embedded in this DNA can help reveal sepsis’ disease mechanisms and microbial source.

Efforts to prevent sepsis need to be enhanced, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham who published a study this month in Lancet Infectious Diseases. “This paper draws ...

According to a recent study, nearly 50% of patients with connective tissue disease, such as lupus, died when sepsis occurred. Patients with connective tissue diseases (CTDs) face a higher risk of ...

In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and ...

A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, ...

Hospitals and infectious disease physicians contend that CMS’ final rule on sepsis care is too rigid and does not allow clinicians flexibility to determine how recommendations should apply to their ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he will prioritize preventing chronic disease, shifting funding from vaccine and infectious disease ...