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New nanoparticles aid sepsis treatment in mice

MADISON — Sepsis, the body’s overreaction to an infection, affects more than 1.5 million people and kills at least 270,000 every year in the U.S. alone. The standard treatment of antibiotics and fluids is not…

Osaka Metropolitan University

Malnutrition Links Kidney Disease, Weaker Muscles

Osaka, Japan - End-stage kidney disease patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) often struggle with malnutrition and sarcopenia, a form of musculoskeletal atrophy that amplifies mortality. Untangling the long-suspected relationship between malnutrition and sarcopenia has bedeviled…