A new cannabis-based drug for children with severe epilepsy is showing “promising” signs in clinical trials.
Epidiolex is being tested on children with Dravet Syndrome and other forms of epilepsy that do not respond to existing drugs.
Its manufacturer, GW Pharmaceuticals, said most of the 60 children in the trials so far had seen the frequency of both “drop” and convulsive seizures fall. The most common side effects were somnolence (sleepiness) and fatigue in a fifth and a tenth of patients respectively.
