[outofsalt]

The FDA is in need of serious oversight in it’s neglect of terminally ill patients! It is very sad that statistical purity overrules humanity in their thinking. It is bordering on corruption!
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n1/full/nbt0108-1.html

[Anita Bonghit]

That’s your FDA for you, operating on on two fears:

(1) The fear that a terminal patient might get deadly complications from a drug;
(2) The fear that someone taking a drug might get a buzz off of it.

[Izzy Dunne]

It is very sad that statistical purity overrules humanity in their thinking. It is bordering on corruption!

Sorry, but it's quite sane, at least from one persepctive.

Consider the case of a patient, whose prognosis is six months to live.

He takes this experimental XYZ-3000, not FDA approved, and keels over in two weeks.

Can't you smell the lawyers salivating over that?