Government gives two weeks notice that access to epilepsy treatment for nine-year-old Alfie Dingley will end. The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announ…
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Cannabis Oil: ‘I’ve Spent £34,000 To Keep My Epileptic Daughter Alive’
Tannine Montgomery says she has spent £34,000 and broken the law to keep her daughter alive. Six-year-old Indie-Rose, from Clare in Suffolk, has severe epilepsy and can have up to 50 seizures a month without medical cannabis oil. Since it was legalised…
Brexit Letter Threatens To Leave Epileptic Children Without Access To Life-Saving Medicine
Medical cannabis prescriptions can help reduce seizures in youngsters. Children with severe epilepsy are at risk of losing access to potentially life-saving medical cannabis at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020. Campaigners sa…
Cannabis Gave Her Child A Future: Now She Helps Other Families
Zaki, 17, likes to point out houses that he’d like to have when he turns 18 next year. That was something unimaginable seven years ago, his mother, Heather Jackson recalled, when he used to have around 200 seizures a day. Nowadays, with CBD, “when he d…
Medical Cannabis Has Saved My Daughter’s Life
Last January, my daughter Jorja became the first child in the UK to be prescribed medical cannabis. She was born with a severe form of epilepsy that had left her suffering over 30 seizures a day. By the age of just one, she was on a mix of six differen…
Doctors & CBD: 5 Things Your Patients Want To Know
Doctors & CBD: 5 Things Your Patients Want To Know
Cannabidiol (CBD) is gaining some momentum in the world of health and wellness, specifically in the treatment of anxiety and chronic pain.
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Mother Of Epileptic 15-Year-Old Urges Government To Provide Medical Cannabis On NHS
Charlotte Caldwell pleads with health secretary Matt Hancock to ‘intervene and stop this torturous ordeal’. The mother of a 15-year-old boy who can suffer from hundreds of seizures a day has called on the health secretary Matt Hancock to intervene and …
Everything Canadians need to know about CBD
Learn everything you need to know about CBD in Canada, from emerging science to specific health applications, to laws around possession, use, and more.
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