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Article: Terminally ill lose experimental-drug bid
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2008
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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 ...