Sepsis is a major global health issue causing one in five of the total deaths worldwide each year, yet it remains difficult to diagnose and treat effectively. The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute ...

Findings highlight the importance of infection prevention measures and personalized heart failure care.

Queensland has the third highest prevalence of a debilitating bowel disease that impacts 180,000 Australians, costing ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A Tucson surgeon has been hit with a multi-million dollar verdict after a patient’s death. 45-year-old Jeremey Marine died two weeks after bariatric surgery in 2020.

It's a copycat killer—often mimicking less severe conditions and delaying much-needed, timely treatments. But sepsis—an ...

Despite persistent racial and ethnic disparities in postoperative sepsis and septic shock risk, there is no evidence of inequity in regard to failure-to-rescue (FTR) rates for either condition. These ...

A federal lawsuit filed on Monday accuses a southern Minnesota jail of failing to provide adequate medical care for a detainee shortly before his death.

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

By Tyler Jenke Just weeks after Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee detailed his near-death experience following a sepsis diagnosis, the band has made the decision to postpone their upcoming Las Vegas ...

31 Severe infection and sepsis are the most frequent aetiologies of AKI worldwide. AKI develops in about 70% of patients with sepsis and often progresses to AKI stage 3. 34,35 The term ...

The team in the cardiovascular engineering lab at OHSU has focused on the role of specific blood clotting mechanisms in sepsis, with hopes of improving treatments for critically ill patients. Owen ...