After her son received a "profoundly life-changing" medical treatment that eased symptoms of his brain injury, a Toowoomba scientist is overseeing the second phase of clinical trials into the drug to get it approved for others.
Half of the 80 participants get a placebo while the others get the treatment, and researchers hope to have results later this year. "He can say 'I'm hungry', 'I need to go to the toilet', the things that we take for granted every day that he couldn't say before. Dr Graham, a registered nurse with 40 years' experience, completed a psychology degree and worked in the field to understand her son's condition.
"Joel said 'But I'll miss you', and when I tell him what I'm doing he just says 'go' because he knows what a difference it's made to his life," she said.after positive results from phase one"These are patients who, after their stroke, have been down the road of rehabilitation, don't show any real treatment improvement from that, so they get despondent," Dr Ralph said.
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