Sunday, February 17, 2013

Chronic fatigue patients frustrated with FDA

Chronic fatigue patients frustrated with FDA
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Chronic-fatigue-patients-frustrated-with-FDA-4283890.php

"Jeannette Burmeister lives in Incline Village, Nev., where, twice a week, she gets a three-hour infusion of a drug to treat chronic fatigue syndrome that she says has very nearly saved her life.  But it comes at a steep price: Burmeister's husband and her 2-year-old daughter live more than 200 miles away in Menlo Park, and she's able to see them only once a week. Because the drug she says she needs - an experimental medication called Ampligen - isn't approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the only way she can get it is through a clinical trial run by a doctor in Nevada."

 

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