FDA-approved medical marijuana clinical trial gets underway next month for kids with epilepsy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Orrin Devinsky, director of the New York University and Saint Barnabas Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Roberta Cilio of the University of California – San Francisco’s Neurology Department, and GW Pharmaceuticals of the United Kingdom permission to use the experimental drug, Epidiolex, to treat 125 children with seizure disorders for whom traditional medicines have failed.
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