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Courts Deny Experimental Drugs

9 August 2007

The Federal Court of Appeals denied a request to make it a Constitutional right for terminally ill patients to be treated with experimental drugs. By a vote of 8-2 the court overturned an earlier decision by a lower court,”to create a constitutional right for patients to assume “any level of risk” without regard to medical testing”, even though FDA approval can take years and can mean certain death for some.

Read More: msnbc.msn.com: Court denies terminally ill experimental meds

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