Pain medication, resiniferatoxin, may increase sepsis-related mortality

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Pain researchers have discovered that resiniferatoxin, a drug that has shown early promise as an option for chronic, severe pain sufferers, may decrease the body's ability to fight off bacterial infections, particularly sepsis.

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