A new blood test could quickly diagnose those at risk of sepsis and bring a 'paradigm shift' in treatment, according to early results from a clinical trial. The "low–cost" test takes just 45 minutes ...

A naturally occurring protein in the human body could protect people from one of the world's biggest killers—sepsis. The ...

A study published in BMC Infectious Diseases has found that older patients with sepsis have lower 28-day mortality when blood pressure is maintained within an optimal range. Current ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body overreacts to an infection and starts attacking its own tissues and ...

The new drug has been developed by researchers at Australia’s Griffith University to target and reverse the sepsis, rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...