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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Miriam Stoppard

'Game-changing Botox can offer patients long-term relief without nasty effects'

Botox isn’t just something to get rid of wrinkles. It has several important medical ­applications – the latest one being valuable and worth studying for the millions of people living with chronic pain.

You see, a modified form of Botox could give long relief to patients with chronic nerve injury pain, according to ­scientists at UCL, the universities of Sheffield and Reading, and US-based biopharma company Neuresta.

Mind you, this is not your common Botox used in the beauty industry. This is new botulinum neurotoxin, which can alleviate chronic pain without risk of paralysis or addiction.

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