"BBS is a debilitating rare disease that severely affects quality of life of patients and their families," said Philip Beales, M.D., UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. "Hyperphagia – the feeling of extreme hunger that stays with patients all the time – leads to early-onset, life-long, severe obesity that affects many aspects of daily living. Until now there have been no licensed treatments for obesity and hyperphagia caused by BBS." The final NICE recommendation is aligned to the European Ma ...