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    A world without DWARFISM

    Apr 26, 2022 4 minutes
    WORDS: VERONIQUE HAWKSWORTH.

    We’ve been used to seeing Paralympian Ellie Simmonds swimming for Team GB. But in a new BBC1 documentary, Ellie dips her toes into the world of a drug designed to treat symptoms of achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.

    The documentary, Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?, focuses on vosoritide, a medicine aimed at changing the lives of people living with dwarfism by helping children to grow. The drug, which requires daily injections and is currently undergoing clinical trials in the UK, has been hailed a breakthrough by some families, but it’s also been met with resistance.

    Proposed treatments for conditions like looks into what a new drug could mean and whether it really is the answer.

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