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 success of blood cultures is dependent on the collection of uncontaminated specimens, culture of a large volume of blood, and inoculation of multiple media types to maximize the recovery of most ...

When a patient in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) develops a fever, physicians often routinely order a blood culture to identify the cause, particularly if they have reason to worry about ...

(CNN) — There is a “critical shortage” of certain vials used to collect samples for blood cultures, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned health care providers on Tuesday. (CNN) — ...

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found there is no standard definition for what constitutes contamination in a blood culture, which could lead to more false positives and CLABSI ...

Blood cultures, a laboratory test for detecting the presence of bacteria in samples of a patient's blood, are widely used by acute care hospitals to find infections as early as possible, identify ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kurin, Inc., the inventor and manufacturer of the Kurin ® blood culture collection sets, announced today the full-scale launch of Kurin Jet, which has joined the Kurin Lock ...

A blood culture is a routine laboratory test in which blood – or another sterile body fluid – is taken from a patient and inoculated into bottles containing specialized media to determine whether ...

Federally funded research suggests that standardizing what defines contamination could increase accuracy of diagnoses, optimize treatments, avoid unnecessary medications and improve patient outcomes ...