The drugs that transformed medicine are losing their power, raising fears of a post-antibiotic era in which common infections kill.
- Professor of Precision Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Doctors must treat sepsis quickly to prevent organ failure. But demographic change and drug-resistant infections are making the condition harder to manage.
Stroke patients get rehab. Heart attack survivors get follow-up care. Sepsis survivors? Often nothing.
What do your gums have to do with your heart? More than you might think. Chronic gum disease can lead to inflammation that damages your heart over time.
Sepsis causes 11 million deaths globally each year.
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