Exactly one month has passed since the NFL instituted blood testing for human growth hormone -- a test experts say is almost impossible to fail. An Associated Press analysis of the testing protocol ...
Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections. The Centers ...
There is a “critical shortage” of certain vials used to collect samples for blood cultures, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned health care providers on Tuesday.These tests help ...
Deferring antibiotic initiation until blood culture results are available is not linked to worse mortality or clinical ...
In July, federal health officials warned hospitals that there would be a critical shortage of blood culture bottles that will stretch into September. Blood culture bottles are key in diagnosing sepsis ...
Time to positivity, defined as the interval between blood culture incubation and the detection of pathogen growth, demonstrated a non-linear relationship with disease severity in bloodstream ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Hospitals in the Philadelphia region are dealing with the fallout from a shortage of ...
The accurate detection of bloodstream infections is central to effective patient management, yet false‐positive results from blood culture contamination continue to impose significant clinical and ...