Re: No right to experimental drugs

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We are such idiots.....I mean it. There is no need for any such thing

as a double blind trial but we've set up this mechanism. We have done

enough trials over the years to long ago know what happens with the

placebo group. And, give terminal patients rights. Yes, if we try a

phase 3 trial med it might kill us, but for those of us about to die

anyway, what is the problem? There has to be some better way although

I don't know enough to know what it is.

I also know that the vast majority of meds put through trials do not

work out. As a compromise at least I feel there should be a certain

point in trials to let others try. To me that is when the med has

been proven not to cause tremendous harm.

>

> Picked up the following article in local ton paper.

Basically it

> covers the fact that the supreme court let stand a lower federal

court

> ruling that terminally ill patients have no right to experimental

drugs

> that the FDA had considered safe enough for additional testing. It

> would appear that the FDA doesn't want us to mess up their clinical

> trials....

>

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

> dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011401709.html?hpid=topnews

>

> Having just been placed into the category of being too ill for

clinical

> trials, it sure would have been nice if this decision had gone the

> other way...

>

> Bob Dopher IPF 07

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