Mar 8, 2024
‘You really don’t see it coming’: N.B. woman warns of strep A and septic shock risk
Cases of invasive Group A strep have reached record levels across Canada, and that’s promptin...
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Feb 27, 2024
How to recognize life-threatening sepsis symptoms
Sepsis is a life-threatening response to an infection that can impact all the organs in the body, w...
Jan 23, 2024
Sepsis Canada: Building a national research network for sepsis awareness
In 2017 the World Health Assembly declared sepsis, defined as the life-threatening organ dysfunctio...
Apr 24, 2023
Could this be sepsis? Sepsis Canada hopes to empower Canadians to recognize the signs and symptoms of the world's deadliest health condition
There is a saying: Grief is just love with no place to go. For Ariana Parolini Sisti, that grief is...
Jan 19, 2023
Clinical trial will test promising cell therapy for septic shock
Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre was awarded $1.6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Clin...
Jan 13, 2023
Serious infections rose last year in CBRM hospitals, but unexpected deaths down
The rate of infections that turn septic among patients at the Cape Breton health complex based in S...
Oct 1, 2022
An Ottawa sepsis survivor who lost three limbs pays it forward by helping others
Christine Caron wants more research into post-sepsis syndrome and more help for those who suffer fr...
Jun 15, 2022
Major Canadian-led trial finds vitamin C doesn’t help sepsis patients
The largest study of its kind investigating the use of high-dose vitamin C for the treatment of pat...
May 12, 2022
Ottawa Hospital researchers awarded $1.85M from Stem Cell Network
Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre was awarded $1 million to conduct a Phase II clinical trial of mesenchymal st...