Two rugby legends have hailed a 'remarkable’ breakthrough in Motor Neurone Disease treatment.
Doddie Weir, 52, and Rob Burrow, 39, both diagnosed with the condition, spoke yesterday after scientists reversed the devastating impact of MND with a drug called tofersen.
The treatment works in 2% of sufferers where the disease is caused by the SOD1 gene. But it has been described by experts as a “real moment of hope” for the whole disease.
