People with motor neurone disease (MND) could be offered drugs to treat the disease faster under a new initiative.
The scheme across the UK will screen candidate drugs rapidly in a bid to identify which should be tested in larger clinical trials.
The study, called Experimental medicine Route To Success, or Experts-ALS, will take people at the point of diagnosis with MND and offer them the opportunity to take one of three drugs being tested to treat the condition.
Known as “repurposed drugs”, the medicines on offer are already be licensed for use on other diseases, but will have some data suggesting they could also treat MND.
