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Article: Court declines to expand experimental-drug access
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- Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
- Article date:
- January 15, 2008
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The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal that sought to give
terminally ill people greater access to experimental drugs that may
save their lives.
The justices, without comment, rebuffed a patient-advocacy group
that said the Food and Drug Administration is placing
unconstitutional obstacles in the way of people who have exhausted
their approved treatment options.
"Huge numbers of Americans die each year after being denied
access to developmental drugs that might have prolonged their lives -
- drugs that, in many instances, later received FDA marketing
approval," argued the group, the Abigail Alliance for Better Access
to Developmental Drugs.
The Bush administration and the FDA urged the ...