Stop Needless Deaths
Today, I want to following up on yesterday’s bad news about the Court of Appeals decision that will prevent terminal cancer patients from having access to safe drugs. We all need to respond immediately to [...]
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Rejects Bid for Terminal Patients to Have Access To Unapproved Drugs!
Late this afternoon U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that terminally ill patients do NOT have the constitutional right to obtain experimental drugs that have not been approved by the FDA! [...]
Air Care Alliance
Yesterday’s post described a program that allowed cancer patients and their family member in need of treatment to hitch a ride on a corporate jet without any charge. Besides this great program, there are a [...]
Corporate Angels
For the last twenty years Corporate Angel Network (CAN), a non-profit organization founded in 1981 and based in Westchester, N.Y., has matched cancer patients and their families with major corporations who are willing to donated [...]
Satraplatin Testimony
I thought that I would share the testimony I delivered at the recent FDA hearing on Satraplatin: My name is Joel T. Nowak. I am here today as a consumer and as a representative of [...]
The FDA Fails to Follow Its Own Directives and Have an Accelerated Drug Approval Process
Lately, I have been writing about the significant disappointment and anger I feel towards the FDA. Congress has directed the FDA and the FDA’s own regulations require that they have a system for accelerated approval [...]