{"id":6830,"date":"2016-12-19T05:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/uncategorized\/medicinal-cannabis-trial-offers-new-hope-epilepsy-battle.html\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T05:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:45:39","slug":"medicinal-cannabis-trial-offers-new-hope-epilepsy-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/news\/medicinal-cannabis-trial-offers-new-hope-epilepsy-battle","title":{"rendered":"Medicinal cannabis trial offers new hope in epilepsy battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><h1>Medicinal cannabis trial offers new hope in epilepsy battle<\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"content\">\n<p>The Royal Brisbane and Women&#8217;s Hospital is participating in a ground breaking international trial using medicinal cannabis to treat the debilitating effects of epilepsy which affects almost 100,000 Queenslanders.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Epilepsy Services at RBWH Professor David Reutens said the world-first trial involved the use of a new anti-seizure medication applied to the skin in gel form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know many people with epilepsy are unable to do things we take for granted such as driving or working. This trial offers them hope to live without fear of having a seizure,\u201d Professor Reutens said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trial involves testing a cannabis-based gel containing cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gel is rubbed on the skin twice a day and when absorbed is predicted to act like a circuit breaker in the brain, preventing the epileptic circuit from firing abnormally \u2013 potentially preventing seizures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf successful, this new gel will provide people with more options besides the traditional treatments like oral medications or surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RBWH has already accepted patients into the six-month trial, which is sponsored by Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Epilepsy Queensland CEO Helen Whitehead said the trial could give epilepsy sufferers a chance to live seizure-free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RBWH team is internationally-renowned in clinical care and treatment of epilepsy and I am very excited to see the hospital be a part of the world-first cannabidiol gel trial,\u201d Ms Whitehead said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an example of how the RBWH is thinking outside the box when it comes to finding new ways to treat complex chronic diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Brisbane and Women&#8217;s Hospital is participating in a ground breaking international trial using medicinal cannabis to treat the debilitating effects of epilepsy which affects almost 100,000 Queenslanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}