{"id":143975,"date":"2025-05-30T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143975\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:29:21","slug":"westmeath-mother-says-public-support-needed-to-legalise-drug-for-dmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143975\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmeath Mother Says Public Support Needed To Legalise Drug for DMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 29 May 2025 17:46\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/68388e5746cb9.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a rare fatal muscular disease.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Westmeath mother is joining a national call to legalise a drug that helps a fatal muscular disease.<\/p>\n<p>Ten year old Noah Benson-Gately and his brother Rowan were diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in 2020 which destroys muscle tissue.<\/p>\n<p>A drug called Givinostat could help them as it delays muscle breakdown, but it&#8217;s currently not available in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are meeting with the Health Minister at Lenister House next month in relation to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Noah and Rowan&#8217;s mother, Athlone&#8217;s Bianca Benson says public support is needed:<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 29 May 2025 17:46 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a rare fatal muscular disease. A Westmeath mother is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[9455,16786,105,16790,16787,3611,16785,4326,16783,16784,12,16788,9440,16,15,16789],"class_list":{"0":"post-143975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-irish-news","12":"tag-laois","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-local-radio","15":"tag-medication","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596555242980069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}