Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jul 2019
'Amazing' gene-silencing drugs reach NHS
9 July 2019 - A new form of medicine called "gene-silencing" has been approved for use by the NHS in England.
The drugs will be used to reverse a disease called amyloidosis, which causes nerve and organ damage. It can be fatal.
Vince Nicholas, whose twin brother and mother both died from the disease, says the therapies are giving him hope.
Doctors say gene-silencing is making the "previously untreatable, treatable" and has huge potential in medicine.
