{"id":806416,"date":"2026-10-18T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806416\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:52:08","slug":"southend-mp-vows-to-help-teenager-access-life-changing-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806416\/","title":{"rendered":"Southend MP vows to help teenager access life-changing drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton-Sampson said: &#8220;There&#8217;s some progress being made now in trying to get Biogen in front of the right people at the Department of Health and Social Care, including the minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said accelerating the discussions was crucial so people like Brogan could &#8220;live a better life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are doing everything in our power to try and make that difference and we&#8217;ll continue to do so,&#8221; Burton-Sampson pledged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a drug out there that could slow this down, and the fact she currently doesn&#8217;t have access to this drug is really, really tragic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brogan and her family delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, pleading with the prime minister for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It followed a petition on the matter attracting 100,000 signatures, including from ex-heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brogan said of the drug: &#8220;It will be a massive deal, just having that little bit of hope that I can be cured one day and I can live a normal life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just awful, I wouldn&#8217;t wish this on any other teenager.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burton-Sampson said: &#8220;There&#8217;s some progress being made now in trying to get Biogen in front of the right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}