MLD

American

median lethal dose.
minimum lethal dose.

MLD British

abbreviation

minimum lethal dose (the smallest amount of a drug or toxic agent that will kill a laboratory animal)

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A similar method has been used in other gene therapies, such as the treatment for another rare inherited condition, MLD.

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The £2.8m treatment is a gene therapy that can halt the progress of MLD and allow a child to go on to live a full and healthy life, but only if it is used before the child is symptomatic.

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The odds of carrying MLD are 40,000 to one.

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"We know there are so many more symptoms to come, that life will only get harder for Lily and that eventually MLD will take her from us far too early," says Emily.

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"I would urge the government, the NHS and the UK National Screening Committee to seriously consider adding MLD to new-born screening", he says.

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