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Court bid for blind wonder-drug

Updated on 30 January 2007

By Victoria Macdonald

A former MP says she will go to court to force the NHS to prescribe a new drug to stop blindness.


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It's a revolutionary new treatment which could stop people going blind - and even improve their sight. But getting it on the NHS can depend on where you live.

Today a former MP, who has the type of Age-related Macular disease known as 'wet' AMD returned to Westminster to threaten legal action unless she was given the drug Lucentis.

But as our health correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports - it then emerged that health officials had agreed to review their decision.



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