LOWELL -- A Lowell-based business incubator for medical device startups joined a network of national institutions enlisted to combat health security threats and to solve problems facing daily medical care.
According to Tuesday's release, one healthcare problem to be addressed is the need for earlier detection of infection, and creating technology that can alert people when they have been infected with a bacteria or virus even before they begin to feel sick.
Another need is solving sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection or traumatic injury.
Sepsis leads to 250,000 deaths in the U.S. annually and costs approximately $24 billion annually to treat, according to Tuesday's release.
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