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B.C. teen with rare disease wins fight to receive costly drug
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May 20, 2020
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2:27Now PlayingMiles Ambridge, a B.C. teenager with a rare neuromuscular disease that's slowly robbing him of strength, has finally won his fight with B.C.'s Ministry of Health to get access to Spinraza, one of the most expensive drugs in the world, which is shown to slow or reverse spinal muscular atrophy in up to 50 per cent of young patients.
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