New treatment tackle skin sores

TREATING children for skin sores used to be very painful, but NT researchers have found a way to do it without the tears.

Researchers have found a painless way to treat children in indigenous communities for skin sores.

RESEARCHERS have found a painless way to treat up to 95 per cent of children in indigenous communities for skin sores.

THE sores, caused by the Streptococcus bacteria, are currently treated with painful penicillin injections.