There was an Interesting article in the NY Times , Oct 29, 2009 "Bending the Rules of Clinical Trials" -- Asks what are the purposes of clinical trials -- to help individual patients or to further medical knowledge for the larger population of patients? Should and how should patients gain access to experimental treatments? SEE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/health/29chen.html?_r=1&em Comments are also very interesting. You can read and/or add comments at: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/bending-the-rules-for-a-new-treatment/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn