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Port Jervis student diagnosed with meningitis  -  25 Mar 2008
Times Herald-Record,According to the Centers for Disease Control, meningcoccal disease is a bacterial infection that can cause meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia,

Study: More deaths from heart surgery with older blood  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNThe findings were similar to smaller studies of colorectal cancer surgery patients in Denmark, cancer surgery patients in Spain, sepsis patients in Canada

Out of squalor, a no-contest plea  -  25 Mar 2008
DetNews.com,Her death was ruled a homicide and due to sepsis, multiple pressure sores and neglect. No criminal charges have been filed against Cooper in her mother's

Understanding the Presentation of Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar ...  -  25 Mar 2008
EMS1.com - Emergency Medical Service Resources,Pneumonia, chronic renal insufficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding, urinary tract infection, and sepsis are common precipitating factors of HHNS.

Tragedy begets in-home nursing service  -  Mar 24, 2008
Lebanon Daily News,Doctors discovered she had blood poisoning — sepsis — as a result of the bites. Even today, sepsis is a life-threatening illness.

InflaRx Raises Financing to Develop a New Therapeutic Approach ...  -  Mar 18, 2008
Business Wire (press release),InflaRx’s mission is to develop new therapeutic approaches to prevent and treat sepsis. Created by Prof. Niels Riedemann and Prof Renfeng Guo, two worldwide

Potential drug targets for sepsis found  -  Feb 29, 2008
Times of India,LONDON: In a study on mice, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found new drug targets for sepsis by identifying an important pathway

Potential Drug Targets For Sepsis Discovered  -  Feb 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)27, 2008) — "We have identified a key connection of signaling pathways in the cascade of events leading to sepsis. This defines a crucial point where the

Research May Yield New Weapons Against Sepsis  -  Feb 27, 2008
U.S. News & World Report,27 (HealthDay News) -- US researchers say they've spotted several potential new drug targets for the serious blood infection known as sepsis.

£4 million from Wellcome Trust for sepsis drugs development  -  Mar 15, 2008
HULIQ,With the treatment of sepsis an area barely impacted upon by pharmaceutical companies, this award has recognised both the urgent need for effective

CAMC tackles sepsis  -  Mar 9, 2008
Charleston Gazette,By Eric Eyre The number of patients who die from a severe blood infection known as sepsis has declined significantly at CAMC General Hospital over the past

6 new incubator cos raise $11m  -  Mar 23, 2008
Globes,A start-up at Yozmot Granot Initiative Center that is developing a treatment for sepsis and autoimmune diseases. A company at Ofakim Hi-Tech Ventures that

New Sepsis Treatment Reduces Length of Time in ICU  -  Mar 5, 2008
Medical News Today,Procalcitonin is a marker that indicates bacterial infections in patients who possibly have sepsis. Participants in the PCT treatment group should have

Potential Drug Target for Deadly Sepsis  -  Mar 3, 2008
Ivanhoe,...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Sepsis is a leading cause of death in both infants and adults in the United States. It is characterized by a series of harmful events

Algorithm Finds The Network -- For Genes Or The Internet  -  Mar 17, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...of genes and their networks as well as how they cooperate in causing diseases, such as sepsis, virus infections, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

Customized treatments for sepsis lower treatment time and reduce ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),The investigators hope that customized treatments will continue to improve care for sepsis patients around the world. “We have now implemented this new

Microsoft Introduces Patient Safety Screening Tool to Stop Spread ...  -  Feb 25, 2008
FOXBusinessThe first module of this platform available is the Patient Safety Screening Tool for Sepsis offering. Sepsis is a deadly infection that strikes an estimated

Customised Sepsis Treatment Reduces Antibiotic Duration, Exposure ...  -  Feb 29, 2008
DG News...of procalcitonin (PCT) allows for the reduction in duration and exposure of antibiotic therapy in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock.

Medical diagnostics growing in influence  -  Mar 14, 2008
Indianapolis Star,Purpose: Creating technology to more quickly diagnose and treat sepsis, an infection of the blood. The top three spots in a recent national life- sciences

Birth asphyxia major cause  -  Mar 19, 2008
Independent-Bangladesh,Birth asphyxia and sepsis together with the low birth weight have been major causes of neonatal deaths in Bangladesh, an international conference on saving

TroubleShooters: Insurance company won't cover sick woman  -  Mar 19, 2008
WWAY NewsChannel 3,Donna said, "This disease that I got, did come out of the blue, it's called sepsis, probably going to have to be some limbs removed and things.

UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News  -  Mar 13, 2008
United Press InternationalLA JOLLA, Calif., March 13 (UPI) -- US medical scientists studying sepsis in mice have made a discovery that might lead to new drug targets for the deadly

Older blood increases heart surgery risks  -  Mar 20, 2008
United Press International...with blood that has been stored more than 14 days were more likely to suffer from kidney failure, sepsis, prolonged intubation and in-hospital death.

HK reports 50 new cases of flu-like illness  -  Mar 13, 2008
Xinhua,...severe pneumonia, myocarditis, shock, sepsis-like or encephalopathy), three reports were received so far with laboratory evidence of influenza.

Microsoft and SAP bring their Duet to health care  -  Feb 25, 2008
InfoWorld,At the Orlando medical conference, Microsoft is also rolling out a software program that identifies risk factors associated with sepsis, a common yet

Microsoft Puts Patient Safety on Center Stage at HIMSS 2008  -  Mar 8, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),The first module of the solution is PSST for sepsis, which helps provide early warning signs for the deadly infection that currently affects 750000 people

Intravenous Lidocaine for Controlling Pain and Inflammation  -  Mar 23, 2008
TheHorse.com,Mudge described lidocaine's usage for analgesia (pain relief), ileus, and sepsis (infection) during her presentation, noting that the medication has a

39-year-old's ER death leaves a lot of unanswered questions  -  Mar 16, 2008
Arizona Daily Star,..."If that is what happened, there are drugs for sepsis. The patient can be put on a ventilator and monitoring lines to balance the body's fluids," Lawrence

Biomarker Monitoring Improves Antibiotic Use in the ICU  -  Feb 29, 2008
MedPage Today,29 -- An antibiotic treatment algorithm based on procalcitonin measurements for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock may shorten treatment and

Providence Health Care: New Research Could Lead to Reduced Deaths ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),Sepsis is the body's response to a severe infection and is a very serious medical condition characterized by an intense whole body inflammatory state.

Bachman family continues to fight disease  -  Mar 4, 2008
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription),This week, the transplant is off and the Roebuck couple is praying for a reprieve from fear of the unknown as a second wave of deadly sepsis riddles their

Infectious Diseases in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit  -  Mar 4, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),In addition to solid chapters on bacterial sepsis, respiratory infections, and central nervous system infections, 60 pages are devoted to life-threatening

Artisan Pharma's Lead Product, ART-123, Approved in Japan  -  Feb 25, 2008
Lifescience-online,Almost 2 million patients in the United States and Europe suffer from sepsis annually, with up to 30% of them developing or being at high risk of developing

Levofloxacin (Levaquin) Resistance Seen in Pediatric Pneumococcal ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
MedPage Today,One other child had been given ciprofloxacin (Cipro) for nosocomial sepsis within the preceding three months, but the remaining children had no history of

Spectral announces data on the clinical utility of EAA(TM) to be ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),The conference takes place in Fukuoka, Japan from February 28th-29th, 2008 and focuses on the role of endotoxemia in sepsis in critically ill patients.

Microsoft Announces Measures In The Health Sector-update  -  Feb 25, 2008
Market Intelligence Center,The company added that the solution's first focus is on tracking sepsis, but would have the ability to track many other diseases.

Performance of Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-8 serum levels in ...  -  Mar 6, 2008
BMC Pediatrics,Early diagnosis of sepsis in children with febrile neutropenia remains difficult due to non-specific clinical and laboratory signs of infection.

Family tells of woman’s battle for life at troubled hospital  -  Mar 5, 2008
Asheville Citizen-Times,She was admitted into the intensive care unit with adult respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis, an infection that had spread through her body,

Obese people have an advantage when it comes to surviving illness  -  Mar 17, 2008
Canada.com,...churning out chemicals called adipokines that help fight inflammation and infections such as sepsis - overwhelming bloodstream infections that are the

Measuring procalcitonin levels can reduce ICU antibiotic exposure ...  -  Feb 29, 2008
Nursing Times,The Swiss research randomly assigned 72 patients in ICU with severe sepsis or septic shock to either an intervention group or a control group.

Drowsiness due to lack of good sleep  -  Feb 29, 2008
Chatham Daily News,RM ANSWER: Sepsis indicates bacteria or bacterial byproducts have entered the blood and are causing great disturbances. Temperature rises; the heart speeds

Mokena man's death not due to meningitis  -  Feb 25, 2008
Joliet Herald News,An autopsy revealed a 21-year-old University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student died from sepsis, a bacterial infection, not meningitis.

Postop Complications, Mortality Climb With Longer Storage of Blood ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Medscape (subscription)...*Serious adverse events such as death, MI, stroke, and sepsis as described in the article. Those who received blood stored >14 days showed a significantly

Partners against cancer: Boston Marathon runner teams up with ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
MetroWest Daily News,Ashley Haseotes said Nicholas developed sepsis three times, meaning his organs were on the verge of shutting down. She and Ari spent every night in the

Parents of dead infant plead not guilty  -  Mar 6, 2008
WHOI,They say he died of sepsis and starvation. Their trial is scheduled to begin in May. Comments are the sole responsibility of the person posting them;

Bad Blood? Old units might be substandard  -  Mar 21, 2008
Science News...to need a ventilator for more than 3 days to breathe, to develop a blood disorder called sepsis, or to die within a year—compared with those getting

Older Red Cell Transfusions Linked to Poor Outcome After Heart Surgery  -  Mar 19, 2008
MedPage Today,In-hospital mortality was 2.8% versus 1.7% (P=0.004), sepsis or septicemia was 4.0% versus 2.8% (P=0.01), intubation of more than 72 hours was 9.7% versus

Study of heart patients rekindles shelf-life debate  -  Mar 20, 2008
San Jose Mercury News,The findings were similar to smaller studies of colorectal cancer surgery patients in Denmark, cancer surgery patients in Spain, sepsis patients in Canada

KRAS Biomarker Analysis from Pivotal Vectibix(TM) Trial Published  -  Mar 4, 2008
WELT ONLINE,Severe dermatologic toxicities were complicated by infection, including sepsis, septic death, and abscesses requiring incisions and drainage.

Age of Transfused Blood Cuts Survival in Heart Surgery Patients  -  Mar 19, 2008
BloombergPatients given transfusions with the older blood had increased risk of complications that can follow cardiac surgery, including sepsis and organ failure.

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