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This week TV3’s Newshub shared a piece on Jimmy King, the first New Zealander with MND to access Tofersen. Tofersen is an investigational drug developed by Biogen to treat SOD1-type MND. Read more and watch the news segment, here: www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/04/motor-neurone-disease-game-changer-treatment-soon-available-in-new-zealand In people of European descent, SOD1 gene mutations cause about 15-30% of MND cases with … Read more

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We have been closely following the Medsafe consultation on the changes to the prescribing restrictions of riluzole (trade name ‘Rilutek’). In April we raised concerns that some of our clients had been prescribed riluzole by their general practitioner. Under the Medicines Act 1981, Rilutek can only be prescribed by specialist physicians who care for patients with … Read more