Analysis says there are four different kinds of sepsis that need to be treated differently
Using a combination of statistical, machine learning, and simulation tools, the researchers combed through data relating to 20,000 past hospital patients who had developed sepsis within six hours of admission.
In particular, they looked for clusters of symptoms and patterns of organ dysfunction, then correlated them against biomarkers and mortality.
The findings revealed not one discernible type of sepsis, but four, which the researchers label alpha, beta, gamma and delta.
Alpha sepsis was the most common, affecting 33% of patients, and carried the lowest fatality rate, about 2%. At the other end of the scale, delta sepsis occurred in only 13% of patients, but had an in-hospital death rate of 32%.
To further test their discovery, Seymour and colleagues ran the same analysis on records for a further 43,000 patients, all of whom had been treated for sepsis between 2012 and 2014. The finding held.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/sepsis-treatments-wrong-by-definition-study-finds
Pluto may have subsurface ocean insulated by clathrates
Popular account: “And if Pluto has such materials, it stands to reason that other outer solar system bodies also have them, including not only the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but possibly other large Kuiper Belt objects, even farther out from the sun than Pluto.”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/pluto-has-an-insulated-underground-ocean
Nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20148
Latest claim: Voynich manuscript was written in proto-Romance
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1599566
Edit: Aaand now it’s been withdrawn.
reperiendi 
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