Bacterial contamination remains a critical hazard in blood transfusion medicine, particularly affecting platelet products owing to their storage at room temperature which favours bacterial growth. The ...

Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing for gram-negative blood infections shows no improvement in clinical outcomes ...

Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body’s immune defenses. Bacteremia can worsen into sepsis, a condition that accounts for more than 1 in 3 hospital deaths per year.

The FDA granted market clearance to T2 Biosystems’ test to detect sepsis-causing bacterial pathogens in blood samples, the company announced May 29. Most diagnostic tests for bacteria in the blood ...

Engineers have created a tiny device that can rapidly detect harmful bacteria in blood, allowing health care professionals to pinpoint the cause of potentially deadly infections and fight them with ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death worldwide. Even if known traditional risk factors such as diabetes or high blood pressure are treated, the disease worsens in half of all ...

Nursing for at least six months may spur beneficial gut bacteria connected to better heart health years later. An observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that ...