Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has blocked one of its neurologists from prescribing cannabis medicine to a nine-year-old boy who suffers up to 300 seizures a day. Joanne Griffiths fears her
Teagan Appleby home after Epidiolex hospital treatment Teagan Appleby of Aylesham, Kent has been successfully treated for her epilepsy with Epidiolex in hospital, thanks to an intervention by Dover and
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson, who suffers with more than 30 epileptic seizures a day, has become the first child in the UK to be prescribed medical cannabis since the 1 November
Mum accuses drug firms of ‘playing God’ A mother has accused drugs firms of “playing God” with her son’s life after he was denied medicinal cannabis to treat his epilepsy.
Families of children with epilepsy say they have been denied prescriptions for medicinal cannabis despite the law change on 1 November that ostensibly made it prescribable by specialist doctors. As
The government has announced that specialist doctors will be able to prescribe cannabis-based medicines but it remains to be seen if the new system will be any better than the
Sophia Gibson, a seven-year-old girl who has been waiting to hear from the Home Office if she can be treated with medicinal cannabis oil, has been admitted to intensive care.
After every possible legal avenue has been exacerbated pressure on the Government finally made them cave when Hannah Deacon, mother of Alfie Dingley who suffers from a rare debilitating form
Clinical trials to use cannabis in the treatment of debilitating illness proving successful for licensed UK company. Whilst the release of their flagship medicine, Sativex and its success in 24
GW Pharmaceuticals; the company responsible for manufacturing Sativex, the cannabis extract in a spray bottle marketed for MS spasticity and neuropathic pain patients – have not tried to keep it
