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In the NYT: Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that patients with terminal illnesses do not have a constitutional right to use medicines that have not yet won regulatory approval.  

Court Rules Out Terminally Ill for Tests

By MATT APUZZO

The Associated Press

Tuesday, August 7, 2007; 8:19 PM

WASHINGTON -- Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned last year's decision by a smaller panel of the same court, which held that terminally ill patients may not be denied access to potentially lifesaving drugs.