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Severely ill patients and those with rare debilitating conditions could be given new medicines years before they are licensed, under new regulations.
The Early Access to Medicines scheme would enable a small number of promising medicines to be fast-tracked.
The idea is to help patients in England with severe illnesses who have no other treatment options.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will oversee the scheme, being launched in April.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "What patients want is sometimes to try medicines that may not be clinically proven to be effective but are clinically safe.
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26553301[/url]
Try before buy, most effective way of getting medicine out to the public.
Sounds like a good idea. If I was seriously ill I would want to be able to test unapproved treatments. It's not like it could be much worse.
Seriously this is good stuff, if you have 3 months to live and you have no other option why not let them try stuff that is showing promise.
I'd be pretty fucked off if the only cure hasn't finished going by the Health and Safety guys and I couldn't use it
Using humans over rats and such furthers medical science a little more quickly, so yeah. Go medical science.
We really should have programs and such which allow people to be guinea pigs for medication experiments.
[QUOTE=Orki;44232428]Seriously this is good stuff, if you have 3 months to live and you have no other option why not let them try stuff that is showing promise.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a comic book origin story. 3 months to live, try new treatment, get superpowers.
You got me good with the title, though I'm kinda disappointed there isn't any game called Drugs
I'm for this unless not everyone who wants it can have a chance at getting it.
I 100% approve of this, if you are terminally ill and an experimental cure is being developed, why not take it, it's not like you have anything to lose and if it works well hey great and it speeds up the development process as they can iron out any quirks of the medicine.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;44232440]You got me good with the title, though I'm kinda disappointed there isn't any game called Drugs[/QUOTE]
Well, you've got this
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which I think is close enough to what you wish for.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;44232444]I cant tell if you are in favor of this or not.[/QUOTE]
In favor. :v:
I approve of it, even if it's a bit gray. Anybody should have at least an outside chance of survival if there's an experimental medicine around for it.
FDA Greenlight is a joke, though.
[QUOTE=Riller;44232640]FDA Greenlight is a joke, though.[/QUOTE]
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Truly amazig news for the desperately ill. I hope this becomes the norm everywhere.
[editline]14th March 2014[/editline]
Also moving to the UK if I ever get some yet untreatable illness.
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/how-dying-patients-get-access-to-experimental-drugs.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&pagewanted=all&]This[/url] is a good article on the compassionate use of pre-approved drugs and it brings up an interesting point. When there's only a 6% chance that your drug will get through clinical trials, are you willing to give it for compassionate use? There's every chance that it will make your remaining life worse. If something goes wrong, you can't learn anything from that case because it's uncontrolled. Worse, if something goes wrong and people DO take that into consideration, it could hamper a drug's chance of getting to market and being available to everyone else; regardless of whether it was the drug's fault. Again, this is all uncontrolled.
I hope there is a framework to allow people with few prospects to have access to experimental drugs. The idea stated in the article sounds similar to what the FDA (and I assume other relevant regulatory bodies) have implemented to fast track drugs for severe and/or rare diseases. Does England not already have a similar system in place?
Why is there a black widow hourglass on one of those pills :v:
[QUOTE=Crimor;44233777]Why is there a black widow hourglass on one of those pills :v:[/QUOTE]
It's a last resort pill for people with minutes to live.
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