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

And during their overall hospital stay, some 11.5% of sepsis patients who were given statins died, compared with 19.1% of sepsis patients who did not take statins.

More accurate measures are needed to help diagnose children with sepsis as a current clinical tool is failing to detect those requiring hospital care, according to a new study.

Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017, almost twice as many as previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday.

For the study, researchers reviewed data on sepsis patients treated at UF Health Jacksonville (Fla.) between Oct. 1, 2013, and Nov. 10, 2015.

Missed opportunities to provide earlier care contributed to the death of a three-year-old boy, an inquest jury has concluded. Theo Tuikubulau died from a Strep A infection which led to sepsis, the ...

Johns Hopkins engineer Suchi Saria has developed an AI-powered platform that is reducing sepsis mortality rates by 18% in dozens of hospitals across the United States—a significant advance in ...

As this season’s pediatric flu death toll continues to rise across the country, these deaths could be linked to sepsis, a variable that led CHoR to introduce the mandatory ED sepsis screenings ...

If a provider used "no need for ICU LOC" as an indicator to rule out sepsis, 57% of patients who went on to develop sepsis would have been missed and 30% of sepsis deaths were in this subpopulation.

Ella Pickover June 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM Copied Critically ill patients with sepsis benefitted from taking this prescription drug (Getty Images/iStockphoto) ...

Discussions emphasized the staggering human and economic burden of sepsis, which leads to more than 350,000 deaths annually in the U.S. and over $60 billion in healthcare costs.