Haemophiliac overruling

LONDON - An English High Court judge yesterday rejected accusations by the families of four haemophiliac boys that local health…

LONDON - An English High Court judge yesterday rejected accusations by the families of four haemophiliac boys that local health authorities had unlawfully imposed a blanket ban on funding treatment with an expensive blood clotting agent because of the cost.

Mr Justice Jowitt said the health authorities were entitled to adopt certain policies and the parents would only have a case if they could show the authorities had failed to consider whether their children had "special needs".

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