Australian Firm Hones Next-Generation Painkillers

Australian Firm Hones Next-Generation Painkillers
The prescription medicine OxyContin is displayed August 21, 2001 at a Walgreens drugstore in Brookline, MA. The powerful painkiller, manufactured to relieve the pain of seriously ill people, is being used by some addicts to achieve a high similar to a heroin rush. Darren McCollester/Getty Images
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Australian scientists are working on new painkilling drugs that are more targeted and with fewer side effects for people living with debilitating and chronic pain.

The medicines, which target a molecule believed to affect how the human body senses pain, are being developed by the University of Queensland startup Cassowary Pharmaceuticals.

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