Published June 14, 2018

This past flu season was more severe than it has been in years past. There were many more flu-related deaths than normal, even in seemingly healthy people. A lot of those deaths turned out to be due to sepsis. This is when the body is fighting so hard to destroy bacteria or other toxins that it ends up damaging its own tissues and organs. Researchers have now found that the reason for the increase in sepsis was poor immunity caused by deficiency in good gut bacteria.

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Published June 12, 2018

A researcher from the Children’s National Health System conducted a large observational study to investigate the use of a particular intervention over the course of 10 years. He found that it lowered mortality rates considerably. And he believes this promising decrease can be attributed in part to one simple change. That is the increasing use of nitric oxide in pediatric patients.

 

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Published June 9, 2018

Researchers have found that a compound from daffodils called haemanthamine can effectively fight cancer. It binds to ribosomes to prevent them from functioning, and it also keeps the nucleolus of the cell from producing more ribosomes. The stress this creates in the nucleolus actually triggers the immune system to activate an anti-tumor surveillance pathway that can help take out the cancer cells.

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