Patients in Wales with a rare disease that causes epilepsy will be the first in the UK to get access to GW Pharma's cannabis-based medicine Epidyolex, after the drug was cleared for use by
An investigator-led trial of Jazz Pharma's cannabis extract-based drug Sativex in glioblastoma – an aggressive form of brain cancer - will get underway in the UK next year.
Jazz Pharma has agreed a $7.2 billion deal to by GW Pharmaceuticals and its pioneering cannabis-derived medicines, headed by childhood epilepsy drug Epidiolex.
Harmony Biosciences has scored an expanded use for its Wakix narcolepsy drug to include cataplexy – a symptom of the sleep disorder that can cause total body collapse.