Historic Milestone: UK Patients Receive First CannEpil® Delivery through 'I AM Billy Foundation' and GMC Specialist Register
LONDON, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (LSE: MXC), (ASX: MXC), (OTC: MGCLF), a leading European pharmaceutical firm specializing in plant-derived medications, announced today that its ground-breaking Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP), CannEpil®, has been successfully imported and received by its first patients in the United Kingdom.
- It is part of MGC's rigorous clinical development programme for patients suffering from refractory epilepsy, also known as drug-resistant epilepsy.
- The initiative permits clinicians listed on The General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register to prescribe CannEpil®.
- The delivery also supports the RESCAS study, a research initiative aiming to address the substantial unmet medical need of refractory epilepsy.
- CannEpil® was supplied to the 'I AM Billy Foundation' through the NHS's Refractory Epilepsy Specialist Clinical Advisory Service, the only route in the UK for patients to receive public funding for cannabis-based treatments of refractory epilepsy.