Dr Yugeesh Lankadeva

Laboratory Head, Translational Cardiovascular and Renal Research Group, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Honorary Fellow, Centre for Integrated Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Can thousands of oranges worth of vitamin C cure sepsis?

Sepsis, when our immune response to infection attacks tissues and organs, is a major killer, but recent research suggests a megadose of vitamin C can reverse the damage

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