A rare neuromuscular disease is eating away at Rose Marie Steffenson’s digestive system. Her muscles have atrophied and nerves are dying. She gets nourishment through one tube and goes to the bathroom through another. Doctors have said there is no cure. The best they can do is makeSteffenson comfortable. Unwilling to accept her death sentence, […]
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For Amy Auden, the fight to gain faster access to drugs not fully sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration did not end last fall when her husband lost his two-year battle to Stage 4 melanoma. “We needed hope but didn’t receive it through our battle. I want others to have opportunities to gain access […]
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The federal government is allowing terminally ill patients to suffer while the FDA drags out the approval process. Some states are fighting back. In the April issue of Townhall Magazine, where this article originally appeared, HotAir’s Mary Katharine Ham discusses one mother’s battle with the FDA to save her terminally ill sons. “Both of my […]
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In a bi-partisan effort to bring Oscar-winning attention to patients who require additional treatment, Dems and GOPs lobby to pass a possible life-saving legislation. In the much-acclaimed movie Dallas Buyers Club, a man dying of AIDS smuggles illegal drugs from Mexico, defies the Federal Drug Administration and its jackbooted agents, and succeeds in prolonging his […]
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