Licorice root: Trip to the candy store might help ward off rare, but deadly infections

Monday, January 4, 2010 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

As it turns out, children were not the only ones with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads over this past holiday season. In a new study, scientists show how a compound from licorice root might be an effective tool in battling life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from severe burns.

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