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HUSH supports application for feasibility study of the drug Eculizumab

5th October 2014

HUSH has supported an application for a feasibility study of the drug Eculizumab, for HUS sufferers.

The drug is currently being successfully used for sufferers of a similar illness called aHUS.

This application is supported by medical and public health experts who believe that this drug could be helpful for sufferers of HUS.

The funding application for this study to the National Institute of Health Research is at a very early stage of the process.

The application is lead by Dr Sally Johnson a Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at Great North Children's Hospital Newcastle and is supported by Paediatric Nephrologists in England, Wales & Scotland.

If the feasibility application & study is successful it is hoped that a trial of the drug will be carried out on HUS sufferers.




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