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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

Major breakthrough in treatment for ultra-rare 'second skeleton' disease

A “life changing” new therapy for an extremely rare medical condition which causes patients to grow a second skeleton has been proven successful in a key clinical trial.

Relatives of people living with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) say that they have “desperately waited” years for a medicine to “stop the disease in its tracks”.

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