The Quebec singer suffers from stiff person syndrome. In Montpellier, the University Hospital Institute assures that it can find a treatment for this disease, according to France Bleu Hérault.
Violent attacks of muscle spasms. This is how Celine Dion’s illness began, suffering from stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological condition whose extent the singer reveals in a documentary broadcast on Prime Video. Faced with the artist’s suffering, a hospital in Montpellier officially relaunched an invitation to work with them, after having already tried to contact her last year, in vain, as France Bleu Hérault recalls.
“It didn’t work out, it was still very complicated to get her to come to Montpellier“, explains Christian Jorgensen, director of the University Hospital Institute (IHU). “I don’t think Celine Dion herself had a concrete proposal but maybe with the press it could reach her.“
10 million euros for research
The IHU teams are mainly involved in research on lupus, polyarthritis and scleroderma. The director of the establishment nevertheless states that they would be quite capable of working on stiff person syndrome. Unfortunately, research funding is very low, for a disease with only 50 patients in France.
“We could offer him a specific solution“, assure Christian Jorgensen. “I think that for her, 10 million euros is not much, and it is not a joke at all: if someone comes with 10 million euros to develop a biomedicine, in two years it will be ready!“, specifying all the same that 100% success is not guaranteed.
published on June 27 at 12:39 p.m., Laureline Chatriot, 6medias
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