Sodium nitrite, a naturally occurring chemical and common meat preservative, is only used medically to treat cyanide poisoning. But if the results of a new animal study hold up under further research ...

DENVER — Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, according to research presented during the 2025 American Academy ...

Among patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intravenous sodium nitrite given by paramedics during resuscitation did not significantly improve their chances of being admitted to or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium ...

The reversal stems from a February Washington Supreme Court decision in a similar case over sodium nitrite purchases from Amazon.

A Colorado father, driven by grief, is pushing to make Colorado among the first states in the country to regulate the sale of sodium nitrite. The preservative, used to cure meat, is deadly in its ...

Nothing says independence like eating an unnaturally pink finger of processed meat. The color of a hot dog is weird, sure, but would you have it any other way? On July 4, an estimated 150 million hot ...