Early-onset neonatal bacterial infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in preterm newborns. It is most often caused by ascending infection via the maternal genital tract.

A recent study found that up to 90% of sepsis patients may be overtreated. The study, published April 15 in Clinical Infectious Diseases and led by researchers from Brigham’s Women’s Hospital and ...

Blood poisoning commonly describes septicemia, a condition in which a local infection moves into the bloodstream and spreads to organs. It can also be used to describe sepsis, a potentially ...

Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and ...

In 2006, Cheryl Douglass, who had recently retired, returned home one afternoon and suddenly started feeling ill. It was as if she had the flu. She sat in an emergency department for hours waiting to ...

The parents of a 10-year-old girl who died after a Strep A bacterial infection was left untreated for several days, have said ...

Major trial finds immediate or high-dose TB treatment does not lower overall mortality in HIV-related sepsis, except in ...