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The New York Times has reported recently about an ethically and emotionally challenging problem for pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, and families seeking help for terminally ill loved ones. (The story is available by clicking here.)
Experimental drugs can only be administered under the rules of experimentation. There are not only international codes (such as the Nuremberg and Geneva codes) to govern human experimentation of any kind, but federal laws and myriad FDA rules and regulations governing pharmaceutical testing. Without those rules it would be impossible to keep drug companies—even the good ones—from facing pressure Read the rest of this entry »