U.S. turning maligned meat preservative sodium nitrate into potential drug AP Worldstream | September 6, 2005| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
AP Worldstream
09-06-2005
Dateline: WASHINGTON
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.

Those ailments have something in common: They hinge on problems with low oxygen, problems the government's research suggests nitrite can ease.

Beyond repairing the reputation of this ...

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