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.
