New approaches to neonatal sepsis needed and screening adolescents for alcohol problems
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 08:07
in Health & Medicine
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Karen Edmond and Anita Zaidi emphasise the importance of finding new approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating neonatal sepsis, especially in the developing world where fatality rates are the highest. Whereas in high income countries the major concern is with premature babies at risk of infection from multi-resistant organisms in intensive care units, the most pressing issues in low income countries are the high proportion of home deliveries in unclean environments predisposing to sepsis, and ensuring that all neonates have access to effective interventions from health care providers in the first days of life...