Hospitals and Healthcare

I’d had a fever, excruciating left hip pain and low blood pressure. My breathing was rapid and shallow, and I was also confused and anxious.

Over-use of antibiotics has created a deadly, largely hidden health crisis among newborns that is devastating families around the world.

It was a minor medical procedure on a Friday afternoon that changed Shelley Brooks' life forever — just four days later, she was told she was lucky to be alive.

In a matter of days, Mick O'Dowd went from being a healthy, sport-loving father to a quadruple amputee. This is his extraordinary story and his warning to others how a simple sore throat or even a mosquito bite can turn deadly.

While 40 per cent of Australians have heard of it, it kills more people than some common cancers.

Although sepsis kills 5000 Australians a year, only about one in seven people can identify the symptoms.

Lucinda Mullins of Kentucky developed sepsis from an infected kidney stone. The tissues in her legs and forearms died during treatment.

Megadoses of vitamin C may be a potential cure for sepsis – when the immune system damages tissues and organs. University of Melbourne researchers explain why.

If I had fingers I might be able to count the number of times people have told me that I should join the Paralympics. But I'm an overweight, 46-year-old mum who hates Lycra. So what should I do to keep living a fun, meaningful life?

Hospital in Cape York guilty of ‘systemic failures’ after turning away a sick child in 2017, who later died from a serious bacterial infection

With an ageing population, and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, now is the time to be worried about sepsis.

Sepsis is a life threatening complication; University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum research describes a new hospital pathway of care to treat sepsis early