Fox Health: Pufferfish pain relief? Doctors use fish's neurotoxin to improve lives of cancer patients

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Pufferfish pain relief? Doctors use fish's neurotoxin to improve lives of cancer patients

<p>Researchers at at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey are leading a phase II clinical trial, hoping to harness the effects of Tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin found in pufferfish.  They hope to utilize the poison in new medications aimed at treating chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/health/~4/JfDSTpFrKlg" height="1" width="1"/>

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