After Decades of Little Progress, Researchers May Be Catching Up to Sepsis
(WorldNews Health)

More Than 200,000 People Die Annually From Medical Complication That Costs Billions Wednesday, November 13, 2019 After decades of little or no progress, biomedical researchers are finally making some headway at detecting and treating sepsis, a deadly medical complication that sends a surge of pathogenic infection through the body and remains a major public health problem. Researchers at Cincinnati Children`s report in Science Translational Medicine they developed and successfully tested a new rapid blood assay that measures five biomarkers and accurately predicts which patients are at low, medium or high risk for death from sepsis (colloquially referred to as blood poisoning). Called...