The Week Unwrapped: A breakthrough in the battle against sepsis?

Plus, MPs swapping careers and Olympians swapping nationalities

South Sudan's Wenyen Gabriel goes for a dunk in the men's preliminary round group C basketball match between South Sudan and Puerto Rico
South Sudan's Wenyen Gabriel goes for a dunk in the men's preliminary round group C basketball match between South Sudan and Puerto Rico
(Image credit: POOL / AFP / Getty Images)

Have we made a breakthrough in the battle against sepsis? Are MPs treating their jobs with due respect? And are some Olympic athletes not all they seem? Arion McNicoll and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. 

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