Sodium Nitrate Could Be Disease Cure
5th Sep 2005, 19:31 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies....
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