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Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. von Eschenbach, 04-5350a.pdf

Where there are no alternative government-approved treatment options, a terminally ill, mentally competent adult patient's informed access to potentially life-saving investigational new drugs determined by the FDA after Phase I trials to be sufficiently safe for expanded human trials is protected under the Due Process Clause.

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  • Decided 05/02/2006
  • Published 05/02/2006

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  • United States DC Circuit

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