title: The courts, terminal patients, and unapproved drugs.
abstract: The Supreme Court supports FDA's position, in the Laetrile case, that no patient is ever so near death that the law's portection against quackery is pointless or without compassion.
mesh_terms: D000678:Amygdalin; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration