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