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There are three times as many cases of sepsis and almost twice as many Australians dying from it each year than previously thought, according to the first assessment of the worldwide burden of sepsis published in The Lancet today.

Researchers investigating differences in diet and related disease risk factors between men and women in lower income countries instead found an alarming degree of poor dietary habits that likely masked effects of gender, according to a new study published today.

In what could come as a big boost to control of hypertension in rural areas of the country, a new study has provided fresh evidence that a low-cost education and monitoring intervention delivered by community health workers is effective in controlling blood pressure and is potentially scalable in resource-poor settings in India and globally.