Compassionate use: Putting drug regulations to the test
When should pharmaceutical companies grant compassionate use of experimental treatments? How readily available should the drugs be? A PBS news segment considers these issues.
When should pharmaceutical companies give gravely ill patients access to experimental treatments? The above news segment offers an good summary of the issues involved in this vexed ethical dilemma.
Compassionate Use Putting drug regulations to the test
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Xavier Symons is a bioethicist and scholar in residence at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics at Georgetown University.
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