"Real Housewives of Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) current guidelines for treating sepsis should be retired and replaced with more performance-based measures, according to a coalition of medical ...

Efforts to prevent sepsis need to be enhanced, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham who published a study this month in Lancet Infectious Diseases. “This paper draws ...

Hospitals and infectious disease physicians contend that CMS’ final rule on sepsis care is too rigid and does not allow clinicians flexibility to determine how recommendations should apply to their ...

Credit: Getty Images. Is mortality worse among patients with sepsis who have a history of ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease — and what complications are more common in these patients? Patients ...

The device is the first of its kind to get the FDA greenlight to allow for early sepsis detection.

Sepsis is not contagious, although some contagious infections can lead to sepsis. Some infections are more likely to result in sepsis, and certain people are at higher risk of developing it than ...

Bela Maranhas broke her ankle while she was on a neighborhood walk near her home north of Boston. She went to the hospital for surgery and the next day she woke up with a sore throat. Within 24 hours ...

For children treated for suspected septic shock, outcomes were similar in fluid resuscitation with balanced crystalloid fluid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When people think about infectious diseases — as many have, these last three years — they think mainly about the immune system.