Meet the mom leading the fight for a new cystic fibrosis treatment.
Melissa Snowden hasn’t been at work for over a year. Her cystic fibrosis is getting worse, and she’s worried about what the future might hold.The good news, there’s a new treatment now available in 21 countries that could help her genetic disease, whichleft untreated, could very well end her life.
Trikafta is not yet available in Canada. It’s hung up in the Patented Medicine Pricing Review Board, although its results in the U.S. have been immediate and more than encouraging.“It honestly feels like a miracle. The changes I experienced just two weeks in, were immediate. I mean I literally felt it within hours,” he says.
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