Experimental Tools To Clean Infected Blood Raise Hope For Fighting Major Killer, Harvard Medical School Study
Experimental technologies to clean infected blood are raising hopes for new progress against an old killer: sepsis, a frighteningly common infection that kills more than 250,000 people a year in the United States alone.
Despite decades of research, sepsis still causes a third to a half of all deaths in US hospitals.
“In terms of human misery and death, this is way up there,” said Dr. Daniel Kohane, a professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the director of a lab working on a blood-cleaning device.
Despite decades of research, sepsis still causes a third to a half of all deaths in US hospitals.
“In terms of human misery and death, this is way up there,” said Dr. Daniel Kohane, a professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the director of a lab working on a blood-cleaning device.