A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...

Lower arterial pressure during septic shock is associated with higher mortality and kidney injury among patients with cirrhosis.

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 ...

Physicians should take at least one blood culture from sepsis patients before administering antibiotics, as the therapy can create less reliable test results, according to a study published in Annals ...

Scientists at Stanford (Calif.) University have found blood tests can shorten the time it takes to identify sepsis in patients from three days to less than one hour. Sanford Assistant Professor of ...

“We actually found a new particle in the human body that had never been described before,” explained Alex Marki, MD, an instructor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI). “That’s not something ...

Photo and schematic of the microfluidic device. A drop of blood is deposed at the centre and filters extract neutrophils that then migrate to peripheral maze. All along, their behaviour is monitored ...

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 ...

Scientists show that when a molecule known as c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) becomes active in sepsis, it increases the production of a protein called B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) -- the more BNP ...

Sepsis scores are not validated in pregnancy; delays increase mortality. If intrauterine infection is suspected, induce ...

A University of Virginia-led team of researchers has made a discovery that may change sepsis treatment for patients in Africa ...