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Article: Ex-MP in legal battle to keep sight.(News)
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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legal bid Former MP Alice Mahon
A FORMER Labour MP may go to court to try to force the NHS to provide a drug that could help restore her sight.
Alice Mahon, aged 69, a former MP for Halifax, lost most of the sight in one eye because of wet age-related macular degeneration.
She also expects to lose her sight in the other.
Her local primary care trust has refused to pay for the drug Lucentis ...