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Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?

Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2022
  • · 59m

Director Kate Monaghan
Cast Ellie Simmonds

Ellie Simmonds, five-time Paralympics gold medallist, is used to an environment where difference is celebrated. But now she’s investigating a controversial new drug that some people argue could bring an end to dwarfism. A pioneering drug is coming on the market that promises to make children with achondroplasia - Ellie’s form of dwarfism - grow closer to average height. A genetic condition, achondroplasia is the most common type of dwarfism in the UK, and the new treatment raises the question: if cutting-edge medicine can stop disability in its tracks, should we use it?

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