Monday, January 14, 2008

Supreme Court Denies Dying Patients Promising New Drugs

The challenge was brought by the Washington Legal Foundation and the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs. Abigail Burroughs, who was diagnosed at 19 and died at 21 of a form of cancer rare in someone her age. The young woman died in 2001, and the drug she was seeking was later approved.

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