Health
Canadian family raises $2 million for baby’s spinal muscular atrophy medical treatment Zolgensma then gets it for free – 7NEWS.com.au
For the first two weeks of her life, baby Lucy was perfectly healthy. Then her parents noticed her struggling to breathe.
A Canadian family who spent months frantically raising millions of dollars for a one-time gene therapy treatment to save their daughters life has received the treatment for free.
Lucy Van Doormaal, now seven months old, was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease that causes infants muscles to waste away, potentially killing them before age two.
After her family raised nearly $2 million to pay for a potentially life saving treatment, administered as a one-time infusion into a…
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