A BREAKTHROUGH study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 highlights IL-6 as a highly accurate early biomarker for sepsis in neonates, children, and pregnant women, three of the most vulnerable patient groups.

As William Evans cradles his newborn infant son, with his four-year-old twin daughters, Alexandria and Anastasia by his side, the single father of three is still coming to terms with the sudden, inescapable void his family faces.

With tears in his eyes, Evans explains the heartbreaking task in front of him: “How do you tell your four-year-old girls that they’re never going to see mommy again when they don’t understand?”

It’s called the hidden killer. That’s because there’s little public awareness about sepsis and not a lot of data on how many people it really affects. But Amalie Henze is out to change all that.

More than 90 per cent of hospitals in Canada are community-based, but limited resources often prevent them from conducting research, creating a critical gap in equitable access to clinical trials and leaving diverse populations underrepresented in life-changing medical data.

The parents of an Okanagan girl who died at Kelowna General Hospital in 2022 are suing the doctors they allege were slow to act and, ultimately, negligent in their child’s care.

Ayla Loseth, 9, died from sepsis due to a streptococcus infection and her parents Christine and Brady Loseth claim it was preventable in a document filed in court last month.

Massachusetts researchers linked SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to about 1 in 6 sepsis cases at five Boston hospitals during the pandemic's first 2-1/2 years.

Renée Cable, Manitoba's minister of advanced education and training, says she knew next to nothing about sepsis before she was hospitalized and rendered unconscious from the condition, where the body's immune response to an infection damages its own tissues.

Please find below the link JLA Global Paediatric Sepsis survey. We are looking for clinical and non-clinical input (patients & families) from around the globe.

Cases of invasive group A strep through have reached record levels across Canada. A New Brunswick woman who caught the illness in 2018 is warning others about the risk of sepsis that comes with it. As Suzanne Lapointe reports, it affected her life for years.

"More people probably die of sepsis in Canada than they do of cancers, and certainly acute heart attacks."

Sepsis is a life-threatening response to an infection that can impact all the organs in the body, with confusion being an early symptom.

Invasive group A strep infections are on the rise in the United States and Canada, yet many remain unaware of its potential to cause sepsis — a life-threatening medical emergency.

Here’s What You Need to Know About Bacterial Infections and #Sepsis

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Did you know…. A Septic Infection can happen to anyone?

September is #SepsisAwarenessMonth and September 13 is World Sepsis Day!

A free online congress by the GSA.

Three Major Scientific Societies Confirm Link Between SARSCoV-2 and Sepsis, Which Causes Vast Majority of COVID-19 Deaths.

World Sepsis Day shares their plan for 2021, a tribute to Konrad Reinhart, sepsis management guidelines from Tuscany, multi-lingual infographics and, finally, presentations.

Podcast speaking with Sepsis Survivors, Christine Caron and Dean Laponsee, about survival, recovery and life Post Sepsis.