A study at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) found that a novel device can significantly reduce contamination of blood cultures, potentially reducing risky overtreatment and unnecessary ...

A recent University of Michigan-led study finds that 10% of patients hospitalized with sepsis were previously healthy—and many of those who ultimately died did so because it was too late to intervene.

Blood cultures, a laboratory test for detecting the presence of bacteria in samples of a patient's blood, are widely used by acute care hospitals to find infections as early as possible, identify ...