The Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday that sought a right for dying patients to try promising and potentially life-saving drugs that have not yet won government approval. Instead, the court let stand a policy of the Food and Drug Administration that generally forbids the use of experimental and unapproved drugs to treat patients in the United States. The court's action is a setback for tens of thousands of dying patients who cannot wait for years until these promising drugs are shown to be safe and effective in clinical trials, said lawyers for the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs. (Los Angeles Times, Tuesday)
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