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This is very bad news for patients with terminal illnesses. Certain that they are going to die if a treatment for their disease is not made available quickly, terminally ill patients are generally quite willing to try anything that might work, even if the drug is risky. When patients have little to lose, it seems completely unreasonable for the FDA to not even let them try. That may be why the federal appeals court for the D.C. Circuit, the court that hears cases about regulatory agencies, ruled on May 2 that “a terminally ill, mentally competent adult...
...with the advice of independent analysis, and decide whether it’s worth it to them. The D.C. Circuit’s ruling is a victory for our rights and a victory for our health. We should applaud it, and tell the FDA that it must allow terminally ill patients to take Gleevec or whatever other medications might save their lives...
...however, thinks the election eve ads Corker put out attacking Ford's family - his father is a once-indicted former Congressman, his uncle awaiting a bribery trial from his state lawmaker past in Memphis - kept Ford on the defensive in the late stages. Corker also benefited from Ford's ill-advised attempt to disrupt a Corker press conference late in the race, adds Oppenheimer...
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday's elections, a Republican official tells TIME. Hastert, 64, a low-key former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a "good cop," compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also...