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'it'll give a sense of how much it's gone through the community . . . it will inform decisions like school opening and how careful to be with children'
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edmonton family wants ahs to cover $2.8 million drug to treat toddler's rare motor disease
by dylan shortan edmonton family is pushing for alberta health services to cover the costs of a multi-million dollar drug that could change their son's life.kaysen martin was diagnosed close to a year ago with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (sma-1), a motor neuron disease that makes it difficult to move voluntary muscles used for swallowing, walking, crawling, lung support and supporting the head.
close to 70 per cent of children with sma-1 do not live past their second birthday and more than 80 per cent do not live to see their fourth birthday.the fight for ahs coverage comes after the family already worked to get martin entered into a lottery put on by the drug's manufacturer, in which 100 doses of zolgensma was made available in countries where the drug is not yet approved, including canada.
