Parish: ’This drug is very safe, and we are very excited about its potential use against sepsis.’
Parish: 'This drug is very safe, and we are very excited about its potential use against sepsis.' - A promising new drug to combat sepsis has been developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU), potentially saving millions of lives each year. ANU Professor Christopher Parish and his team have been working on the drug for more than 10 years, with the drug being developed from compounds originally designed to fight cancer. There are some 11 million sepsis-related deaths worldwide each year, according to The World Health Organization (WHO) - accounting for almost 20 per cent of all global deaths. "There is a huge medical need for a treatment for sepsis. It is surprising how many people die from sepsis and the medical profession hasn't yet found a treatment," Professor Parish said. "We hope that we can now treat the untreatable.
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