UK: Cannabis drug could help thousands of epilepsy sufferers following trial at Great O

As many as a third of the UK's 600,000 epilepsy sufferers are drug resistant with some suffering as many as several dozen seizures a day. Experts believe the drug derived from cannabis, with the addictive element removed, may help

Medics are trialling a drug derived from cannabis that could revolutionise the treatment of epilepsy .

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital are trialing the revolutionary 'cannabis' drug that could transform the lives of thousands of people with epilepsy.

At present as many as a third of the UK's 600,000 epilepsy sufferers are drug resistant with some suffering as many as several dozen seizures a day. Now experts believe a drug derived from cannabis, with the addictive element removed, may help.

The medics are part of an international trial of more than 200 children adults of the drug for a rare form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome where sufferers can experience up to 80 seizures a...

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