A state Senate panel on Monday cleared a bill to require hospitals to establish protocols to identify sepsis quickly.  The ...

Northwell Health, Henry Ford Health and Corewell Health are making strides in reducing sepsis deaths through one key factor: accountability. About 3 in 4 U.S. hospitals have a sepsis program, but only ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) generate direct costs to U.S. hospitals estimated in the tens of billions annually.

Of all the life-threatening conditions hospitals battle on a daily basis, sepsis is a particularly fickle beast. Despite the difficulties associated with diagnosing this complication, healthcare ...

Christina Hornyak’s life was on the line, but she didn’t realize it. Weeks after she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, Hornyak found herself struggling. She had severe fatigue, mental fog, ...

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he ...

About one third of individuals who die while hospitalized have sepsis during that hospitalization, yet more than 1400 hospitals in the United States report not having a sepsis program, according to ...

Over half of Americans have never heard of sepsis. But its a potentially deadly response to an infection, which causes inflammation throughout the body. Sepsis kills more than a quarter of its victims ...

Suffolk Coroner Nigel Parsley files a Prevention of Future Deaths report after Terrence Frost's death.

A mother died from sepsis after the NHS gave her the wrong antibiotics, a coroner has ruled. Aleisha Rochester, 33, a bank ...

According to the report, Alabama hospitals performed better than the national average in three of four key infection categories.