My Son Pioneered an Epilepsy Drug Derived From Marijuana. An FDA Panel Just Approved It
My Son Pioneered an Epilepsy Drug Derived From Marijuana. An FDA Panel Just Approved It
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 23, 20189m 13s
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Show Notes
Yesterday morning a tall, lanky 16-year-old boy in a red polo shirt stood at a podium in front of a roomful of doctors, scientists, and regulators and told them about how a drug they were considering for approval had changed his life. “I had seizures for 10 years,” he said. “My parents tell me there were times I had seizures 100 times a day.” Now, he said, he has been seizure free for nearly two and a half years. “I can understand what goes on at school,” he said.
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