An infection on Mac Horsburgh's finger turned into a septic shock that almost killed him nine years ago. The survivor wants to see Manitoba better identify and treat sepsis to prevent more cases like ...

Using medical data from sick patients while they're still at home, traveling in an ambulance and receiving care in the emergency room, researchers at Northeastern have used artificial intelligence to ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

When most people think of dreaded diseases or conditions, cancer, heart disease or dementia usually top the list. But far fewer realize there’s a silent killer claiming hundreds of thousands of lives ...

Sepsis is a critical global healthcare challenge, marked by complex and rapidly evolving symptoms, which can escalate with alarming speed leading to multi-organ failure. This leaves only a narrow ...

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and MedStar Health in Maryland reports that too many still don't know about it and its symptoms. Nearly half of adults either have no idea what sepsis is or have ...

Credit: Getty Images To address the gap in sepsis management bundle compliance at a community hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, the authors created an intervention targeting patients who presented with ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

The life-threatening condition sepsis occurs when an infection triggers a chain reaction throughout the body. Inflammation can lead to blood clots and leaking blood vessels, and can ultimately cause ...

In patients with suspected sepsis, the use of β-lactam therapy prior to vancomycin was associated with lower risk of in-hospital mortality compared with vancomycin prior to β-lactam therapy. The ...

In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among ...

When looking at stays for second-trimester pregnancy loss, ProPublica found a relatively steady rate of sepsis before Texas made abortion a crime. In late 2021, the state made it a civil offense to ...