19 Dec2014
Clinical trials of cannabis-based epilepsy medicine to start in the UK
Lorraine Roberston with son Max, aged 12, who will be among the first UK patients to receive a medicine derived from the cannabis plant to treat his epilepsy condition. Dr. Richard Chin from the University of Edinburgh’s Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre (right) is helping to lead the study. (Credit: Jane Barlow Photography)
UK health officials have given the go-ahead for doctors to test a new treatment derived from the cannabis plant in children suffering from certain forms of severe epilepsy.
