Will cannabis help in treating epilepsy?
The latest trials of cannabis in the treatment of children with epilepsy suggest a pure form of the drug may be of benefit. But Professor Helen Cross of Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, stressed that the benefit may be no greater than that of one of the new, standard anti-epileptic drugs.
Speaking at the 31st International Epilepsy Congress in Istanbul, she said there was a lot of interest in the use of cannabis in treating seizures but that more tests were needed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the drug. ‘We have to be particularly concerned about the effects of the drug on the developing brain in children,’ she said.
Epidiolex
Professor Cross is the chief UK clinical investigator in the first UK trials of cannnabidiol, a component of cannabis which does not contain the psychoactive component THC.
The drug has been developed as Epidiolex by the UK company...
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