Hope for disease victims

Jul 10 2006

By Homa Khaleeli, Liverpool Echo

A CRIPPLING disease is to be tackled with a revolutionary new treatment for patients in Merseyside. Around 2,255 men in Merseyside suffer from a damaging form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis. But new hope has been found in a group of anti-inflammatory drugs to control the symptoms. University Hospital Aintree is conducting trials into the medicine. The disease can leave victims bent into the shape of a question mark. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT The professor leading the trials into TNF blockers said it meant people in Merseyside could get drugs a year before everyone else. Sufferer Paul Owens, 32, said the illness turned him into an old man when he was still in his twenties. The Netherton man could not move from his bed to continue his work as a welder or even to play with his four children. He said: "The pain was so bad I was crying myself to sleep at night.

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