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Sepsis

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Name: Sepsis

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 3 Documents

Protecting Blood Vessels May Offer Way to Fight Sepsis, Influenza, and Other Life-threatening Infections

Study shows protein pathway protects vessels from leaking fluid after becoming inflamedTreating virulent influenza, sepsis, and other potentially deadly infections long has focused on looking for ways to kill viruses and bacteria. But new research from ... [Published 11 hours ago by Health Canal]

Entities: Sepsis, Infection, Inflammation, Influenza

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 2 Documents

Modulating body's inflammatory response may help fight serious infection

Protein pathway protects vessels from leaking fluidTreating virulent influenza, sepsis, and other potentially deadly infections long has focused on looking for ways to kill viruses and bacteria. But new research from the University of Utah and Utah State ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by News-Medical.Net]

Entities: Infection, Sepsis, Antiviral, Influenza

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Two Treatment Strategies for Severe Sepsis Show Similar Survival Rates

Treating severe sepsis using measure lactate levels showed a similar short-term survival rate as a treatment regimen using targeted central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2), according to a new study.Researchers at the Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Hospi Medica]

Entities: Sepsis, Septic Shock, Oxygen, Alan Jones

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Novartis gets Europe clearance for meningitis drug

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Novartis /quotes/comstock/13*!nvs/quotes/nls/nvs (NVS 54.82, -0.04, -0.07%) /quotes/comstock/06p!novn (CH:NOVN 57.80, -0.10, -0.17%) , the Basel health-care giant, received from the European Commission clearance to market Menveo ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by MarketWatch]

Entities: Novartis AG, Meningitis, Infection, Sepsis, spinal cord

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 Documents

Novartis AG

EU approves Novartis' meningoccal vaccine

ZURICH, March 18 (Reuters) - Novartis AG's key meningococcal vaccine Menveo has been approved in Europe, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday, further underscoring the potential of its pipeline.The approval, which comes just under a month after it won ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by FinanzNachrichten.de]

Entities: Novartis AG, Vaccine, European Union, Meningococcemia

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Charleston Area Medical Center

Dedicated Team Helps To Improve Outcomes In Severe Sepsis Patients

Miami Beach, Fla.-A multidisciplinary team that concentrates solely on managing severe sepsis can significantly improve patient outcomes, according to new research presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 39th Annual Critical Care Congres ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Pharmacy Practice News]

Entities: Sepsis, Mortality, Charleston Area Medical Center, University of Chicago Medical Center, Septic Shock

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 3 Documents

Interleukin-7 Promotes T Cell Viability, Trafficking In Sepsis: Cytheris

Cytheris, a clinical stage biopharma company focused on research and development of new therapies for immune modulation, has published data from a preclinical study in a clinically relevant animal model of sepsis showing that recombinant human Interleukin-7 ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Pharmaceutical Business Review]

Entities: Sepsis, T Cell, interleukin-7

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Sepsis Resuscitation Protocols: Lactate Clearance vs Central Venous Oxygen Saturation

In this video blog, Dr. Andy Shorr discusses a study comparing lactate clearance and central venous oxygen saturation as goals of early sepsis therapy. Did mortality differ between protocols used?Medscape Pulmonary Medicine ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Medscape]

Entities: Sepsis, Saturation, Oxygen

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Why are 48,000 Hospital-Stays per Year in the US Ending in Death?

In the United States, two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a recent study.This is the largest nationally representative study of the ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by Food Consumer]

Entities: Infection, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Pneumonia, Sepsis, Bacteria

First Reported Mar 04 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 3 Documents

3/4/10 - BioMS Medical's partner Spectral wins FDA approval to initiate sepsis trial

(Datamonitor via COMTEX) BioMS Medical, a biotechnology company, has reported that Spectral Diagnostics has received investigational device exemption approval from the FDA for Toraymyxin.Spectral Diagnostics and BioMS have entered into a services agreement ... [Published Mar 04 2010 by Pharmacy Choice]

Entities: BioMS Medical Corporation, Sepsis, Food and Drug Administration

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 3 Documents

50,000 die yearly of infections in U.S. hospitals

The report, according to Agence France Presse (AFP) yesterday, came as former Vice President Dick Cheney was hospitalised in Washington a day after experiencing chest pains.Cheney's assistant, Peter Long, issued a statement saying that the 69-year-old ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Nigeria Guardian]

Entities: Infection, Dick Cheney, Sepsis

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 32 Documents

Hospital-Acquired Infections Impose Heavy Burden

TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital-acquired sepsis and pneumonia impose a significant financial and clinical burden, according to a study published in the Feb. 22 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, while another study found that hospitals ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by Modern Medicine]

Entities: Encumbrance, Sepsis, Pneumonia, Infection, Discharge

Quotes

Andrin Oswald, division head of vaccines and diagnostics at Novartis, said: "Marketing approval for Menveo for people ages 11 and older is the culmination of 10 years of dedicated effort by Novartis Vaccines to provide a vaccine that can help protect against meningococcal disease. Our priority is to advance the fight against meningitis through innovative vaccines that help save lives."

Novartis Receives EU Approval For Menveo [InfoGrok - 10 hours ago]

...study opens a potentially exciting approach to treating virulent viral-caused infections such as pandemic H1N1 and the highly infectious avian flu. "It may be even a more effective approach if it were to be used in combination with antiviral drug therapy, perhaps allowing the antiviral drug to be used at concentrations below those which would induce drug resistance or allow the drug to be administered for shorter periods of time" said Barnard, also a co-author on the study

Protecting Blood Vessels May Offer Way to Fight Sepsis, Influenza, and Other Life-threatening Inf ... [Health Canal - 11 hours ago]

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Cytheris study: rhIL-7 treatment restores T cel... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 16 2010]

Blogs

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Audio/Video

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