Experts say the updated definition and new scoring system is better at identifying children with sepsis and has the potential to improve care and outcomes.
The maternal vaccine candidate will target sepsis caused by Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.
The National Early Warning Score accurately predicted 72.2% of sepsis cases.
The incidence of neonatal sepsis or death was 2.0% in the azithromycin group and 1.9% in the placebo group.
The findings of a multi-country randomized trial suggest the inexpensive antibiotic could be a low-cost strategy to reduce maternal mortality.
A large international study found antibiotic use in newborns was disproportinate compared with the burden of early-onset sepsis.
Yet 80% of low-risk newborns got antibiotics, and for similar durations as high-risk infants.
A team of pediatricians in Massachusetts has developed a new metric for capturing the range of antibiotic prescribing among pediatricians for common clinical scenarios.
Over half of adults diagnosed as having a rheumatologic disease reported persistent COVID-19 symptoms at least a month after recovery from their infection, according to survey results presented late last week at the virtual American College of Rheumatology annual meeting.
A sample from a white-tailed deer in Wyandot County, Ohio, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) Dec 10, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) yesterday, the first in a wild deer in the state.
