Taking on healthcare's sneaky killers'
New AHFMR interdisciplinary teams are taking on diseases and conditions that rarely make the headlines yet take a tremendous toll on the lives of Canadians: chronic disease, sepsis, and pressure sores.
Story by Connie Bryson/Illustrations by Brennan Kelly
Some diseases are deadlier and costlier to treat than we might imagine. While cancer, heart disease and infectious diseases lead in public awareness and media attention, other serious and difficult-to-treat diseases fly under the radar. They cause a great deal of suffering, and yet aren't well known. Three AHFMR interdisciplinary teams are focusing on some of these "sneaky killers".
