A Western diet high in fat and sugar can pack on the pounds. But it can also put someone at greater risk of developing severe sepsis, according to a study by a Portland State University researcher. Credit: CC0 Public Domain The study, appearing in the Feb. 11 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National...
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Secret to sepsis may lie in rare cell (basophils)
In a paper published in Nature Immunology, scientists from Seattle Children’s Research Institute reveal how a rare group of white blood cells called basophils play an important role in the immune response to a bacterial infection, preventing the development of sepsis. Researchers say their findings could lead to better ways to prevent the dangerous immune...
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Smartphone, M.D.
A new app developed by UCSB researchers enables a smartphone to ID bacteria in just one hour UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA BARBARA In a potential game-changer for the healthcare industry, a new cell phone app and lab kit now allow a smartphone to identify bacteria from patients anywhere in the world. With the new...
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Researchers stop cell suicide that worsens sepsis, arthritis
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a way to stop immune cell death associated with multiple diseases, including sepsis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and arthritis. Credit: CC0 Public Domain The findings, published in Science Immunology, identify a chemical that potently inhibits inflammatory cell death. Cells often perforate their own membranes in...
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Scientists discover treatment target for sepsis
In a study published in Nature Communications, Northwestern Medicine scientists demonstrated the key role a molecule called oxPAPC plays in regulating the inflammatory response—findings which could inform the development of new therapies for the body’s life-threatening response to serious infections. Lan Chu, a sixth-year doctoral student in Feinberg’s Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences (DGP),...
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Study: Biomarkers as predictive of sepsis as lengthy patient monitoring
Researchers at the University of Illinois worked with physicians at Carle Foundation Hospital in a new study that found one measurement of biomarkers in the blood can predict a patient’s sepsis status as well as monitoring the patient for hours. Pictured, from left: Professors Rashid Bashir and Ruoqing Zhu, Prenosis Inc. employee Ishan Taneja and...
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FDA clears test to help manage antibiotic treatment for lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay to help health care providers determine if antibiotic treatment should be started or stopped in patients with lower respiratory tract infections, such as community-acquired pneumonia, and stopped in patients with sepsis. This is the first test to use...
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Are ibuprofen and aspirin the cures for sepsis? Similar drugs found to prevent blood poisoning which kills thousands
Sepsis is a life-threatening inflammatory response to an infection, doctors say NSAIDs work by blocking an enzyme in the body that causes inflammation But scientists found they can also inhibit another enzyme responsible for it Sepsis can rob someone of their life in minutes. But a potentially life-saving treatment has been under our noses for...
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