Doctor’s research could buy time for snake bite victims

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A researcher at the University of Arizona is experimenting with a new therapy to help treat rattlesnake bites.
Dr. Vance G. Nielsen hopes that once it is ready for humans, the therapy will be administered like an EpiPen, injected into a snakebite victim in the field to buy the person valuable time to get to the hospital for anti-venom treatments.
Nielsen, a professor and vice chair for research in the University of Arizona Department of Anesthesiology and the College o