New drug could be safer, non-addictive alternative to morphine
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 08:11
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Tulane University and Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System have developed a painkiller that is as strong as morphine but isn’t likely to be addictive and with fewer side effects, according to a new study in the journal Neuropharmacology. Using rats, scientists compared several engineered variants of the neurochemical endomorphin, which is found […]