Hope for dozens of families as country’s first medical cannabis charity plans to offer grants to epilepsy and MS patients forking out for private prescriptions

Sapphire Medical Foundation aims to dish out grants to 20 patients next yearThey will target poor families unable to afford expensive private prescriptionsIt will heap pressure on government as drugs still…

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Medicinal cannabis will be given to 20,000 British patients in first major trial of drug’s impact – a year after it was made legal on the NHS

Project, named Twenty21, was launched yesterday and will run until end of 2021To test impact on chronic pain, MS, epilepsy, PTSD, Tourette's, anxiety, addictionMedical marijuana been legal since last November…

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Multiple sclerosis could be stopped in the next DECADE, researchers say as they hail scientific breakthroughs that ‘pave the way to wiping out the condition’

Scientists say range of medications will be in late stage trials by as early as 2025This year saw breakthrough with blood sugar and cholesterol-lowering drugs Currently only medications available for sufferers focus on…

Continue ReadingMultiple sclerosis could be stopped in the next DECADE, researchers say as they hail scientific breakthroughs that ‘pave the way to wiping out the condition’