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

For years, the approach to sepsis in acute care settings has been the same: early warning alerts and standardized care protocols. Unfortunately, it hasn’t moved the needle. Sepsis still affects 2.5 ...

Kevin Tracey, MD, was trained as a neurosurgeon. In 1985, at what was then New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, an 11-month-old girl was brought in with severe burns after a boiling pot of ...

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he ...

Older adults hospitalized with infections had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, according to an October study published in Aging-US.

Providence has made significant strides in sepsis care, according to this chief clinical officer. The Providence health system and a hospital that is part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady ...

A large-scale meta-analysis, led by first author Wei Yu Chua from the National University of Singapore and corresponding ...

Sepsis is a factor among roughly 1 in 3 hospital deaths, yet, as of last year, more than a quarter of hospitals didn’t have a formal sepsis committee in place and nearly half said they did not provide ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 10 of Aging-US on October 13, 2025, titled "Hospitalization with ...

A hospital has apologised after a 10-day-old baby died of sepsis linked to a bungled biopsy procedure. Willow Rose ...

About one third of individuals who die while hospitalized have sepsis during that hospitalization, yet more than 1400 hospitals in the United States report not having a sepsis program, according to ...

More than 1400 hospitals in the United States do not have a sepsis program to lead the intervention for a medical emergency that affects at least 1.7 million people, according to a recent survey by ...