New drug gives retired nurse 'chance at life'

A retired nurse has said a new drug therapy for Parkinson's disease has given her "a chance at living a life" after becoming one of the first patients in Norfolk to receive it. Janice Fuller, 64, of Hopton, was diagnosed with the disease in 2015 having first experienced symptoms in 2012. Last month she underwent a new treatment called produodopa, which has recently been introduced at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) after an NHS rollout earlier this year. The treatment sees patients given two drugs, foslevodopa and foscarbidopa, which are steadily released into the bloodstream using a pump...