A simple daily blood test could help critically ill sepsis patients come off antibiotics sooner, potentially reducing drug ...

A prospective single-center cohort study of 215 septic adults links elevated serum MCP-1, GDF-15, PCSK9, and NLRP3 to reduced ...

A prospective study of 121 patients with suspected sepsis compared peripheral blood host depletion mNGS and plasma cell-free ...

A new test predicts sepsis soon after infection—well before blood clotting and organ failure—enabling early antibiotic treatment and markedly increased survival, a study with mice shows. The findings ...

Monitoring procalcitonin levels helped doctors consider stopping antibiotics earlier in patients with sepsis than using ...

Many life-threatening medical conditions, such as sepsis, which is triggered by blood-borne pathogens, cannot be detected accurately and quickly enough to initiate the right course of treatment. In ...

Every year, sepsis kills roughly 350,000 adults in the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibiotics and aggressive supportive care remain the backbone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified five proteins in umbilical cord blood that could signal early-onset sepsis in preterm ...

In a potential paradigm change for sepsis diagnostics, a new test predicted sepsis soon after infection in mice - well before blood clotting and organ failure - enabling early antibiotic treatment and ...

Sepsis occurs when the body works so hard to fight an infection that the over-activated immune system harms a patient's own tissues as collateral damage. As a result, blood vessels can become leaky ...