Article: Terminally ill lose experimental-drug bid

WASHINGTON -- A legal battle ended at the Supreme Court on Monday over whether terminally ill patients who have run out of medical options have a constitutional right to try experimental drugs that have not yet received federal approval.

Advocates for patients lost the battle when, without comment, the justices refused to hear an appeal of a ruling by a divided federal appeals court that there is no such right.

The case, which attracted widespread interest and alliances across the usual ideological boundaries, began in 2003 as a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration by a group called the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs. The group was started by the father ...

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