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Teddy, 2, developed a fever in early July that raised alarms for his mother Katee Abel, prompting her to take him into the ...

Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives ...

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To help hospitals across the country improve sepsis care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, consisting of seven strategies designed to ...

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The deadly cases were seen in counties spread around Florida’s extensive coastline. The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus thrives in ...

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Sepsis-induced immune dysfunction is a major contributor to high mortality rates in septic patients. Recent findings shed light on the role of nuclear ...

Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for ...