A landmark clinical trial to evaluate life-saving antibiotic combinations for treating newborns with sepsis has started in Ghana .

Using genome sequencing, researchers found that the infection-prevention practices of using an antibiotic ointment and ...

The 2025 IDSA guidelines provide a comprehensive update on the management of cUTIs and reflect new evidence aiming to improve ...

Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) bears the highest global burden of neonatal mortality, a problem continued by the widespread ‘know-do gap’, the failure to translate evidence-based guidelines ...

WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) -- International guidelines are presented for the treatment of adults and children with sepsis and septic shock in two special articles from the Surviving ...

An international team of experts recently came together to update sepsis care guidelines for adults for the first time since 2021. The updates have profound implications for the management of sepsis, ...

Sepsis is a factor in more than 10% of non-neonatal pediatric hospitalizations as well as almost 18% of those patients’ in-hospital deaths, according to a recently published estimate built on ...

CHICAGO -- More than 18,000 non-neonatal sepsis cases occur annually in U.S. kids, and nearly one in five pediatric in-hospital deaths involve sepsis, researchers estimated based on findings of a ...

"Neonatal sepsis is one of the major causes of death among children in the first 28 days of life," says study senior author Dr. Davidson Hamer, professor of global health and medicine at BUSPH and BU ...

Sepsis is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), caused in large part by bloodstream infections from the multidrug-resistant pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

Sophie Driker, MPH, and Anne CC Lee, MD, MPH, discuss the effectiveness of WHO IMCI clinical signs for detecting sepsis and mortality risk in infants younger than 60 days. Sepsis remains a leading and ...