Summary

When a patient arrives at the hospital with an acetaminophen overdose, it's often a race against the clock. The only FDA-approved antidote for overdose-related liver injury, N‑acetylcysteine, must be administered within hours to be effective. But in a new study published today in PNAS , researchers used an approach in an animal model that could eventually buy more time for these patients.

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