A Cure? "Compassionate Use" and Drug Regulation

Are government bureaucrats keeping dying patients from getting access to possibly life saving drugs?  That’s one way to read Margaret Talbot’s story in the Sunday New York Times (“Fighting for a Last Chance at Life.”  May 17, 2009).  Talbot describes how mother Kathy Thompson sought access to an unlicensed therapy Iplex for her Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis… Continue reading A Cure? "Compassionate Use" and Drug Regulation