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Blowfish Poison Derivative Could Be A Painkiller
Makarand writes "According to this Reuters article, a Vancouver (Canada) based company
is testing a
painkiller derived from blowfish poison.
The drug
has passed two phases of clinical tests and during testing it could ease pain in terminally
ill cancer patients with a dosage of few micrograms. The drug is a sodium channel blocker and works by stopping nerves from sending pain signals to the brain. The company says that the drug does not have the side effects of morphine and is non-addictive. A single blowfish can provide about 600 doses of this drug."
Here is a very simple trawl of BBC news over the past couple of months:
A link here (about MS), another here (about Alzheimer), another here about epileptics, some say it kills pain, oh, and here is something saying it may be available with a year. And this is a very simple search of the BBc website. How about searching the medical research council or even the medicine department of your local college.
This amount of material in (a tiny section of) the public domain being "virtually no studies to base any conclusions on" is just false. Medical studies take time but there are plenty being done.
Don't take the cr4p commercial providers throw at you, they want you to think they and you are right and everything else is wrong, so you trust and follow them more. Don't be a fool.
STFU etc etc, nice to copy another's sign-ogg, isn't it? And here I could be talking about important things like Gentoo.
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While you wait for the order, read a bit about Tetrodotoxin, which was the Molecule of the Month in November 1999.
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