Researcher develops medication for chronic pain
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — University of California, Davis professor Bruce Hammock has spent a 50-year career studying insects. He probably wouldn’t be the Ph.D. considered most likely to shake up the multibillion-dollar prescription painkiller market.Nonetheless, he has developed a medication for chronic pain that he said has proved effective and non-addictive in animal trials.Could his discovery put an end to the devastating death toll caused by opioids such as […]
