Author: Erin Elizabeth

Dr. William Ranahan, a researcher, and the head of Oral Robert University’s Cancer Lab has successfully trained mushrooms to destroy cancer cells, “We have mushrooms growing just on cancer. They’ve figured out how to break them down,” he said. Ranahan has been interested in cancer research for quite some time and in 2014 he received an award for advances in breast cancer research. At that time his main focus was on silencing a specific hormone called prolactin to stimulate cancer cell death; that discovery received a $4 million grant for further study. RELATED ARTICLES: IKEA- using mushrooms to create packaging that...

Sepsis is a condition caused by inflammation that is frequently triggered by an overwhelming infection in the body. It can lead to multiple organ failure and kills more people in the hospital than any other disease. But perhaps now, hope is on the horizon. A study from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va., has reported some remarkable success in treating patients who were at high risk of sudden death from the condition. In January of 2015, Dr. Paul Marik was running the intensive care unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital when a 48-year-old woman came in with a severe...