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Cannabub shot works

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LONDON: A British baby has become the first in the world to be given a cannabis-derived medicine as part of a new clinical trial to help infants born with a condition that can lead to brain damage.

Oscar Parodi was born by emergency caesarean on March 11 at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalop­athy (HIE), which is a lack of oxygen or blood flow from the placenta to the baby.

He was transferre­d to intensive neonatal care and given cooling treatment as well as a single intravenou­s dose of the cannabis-derived drug in a bid to prevent seizures. Oscar is currently doing well

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