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No Room For Emotion or Exceptions to the Rule (on Avastin)

Elaine Schattner, MD

My cousin testified before the FDA oncology advisory board on Tuesday about her experience taking Avastin. This is a tragedy, to deny the only drug that is keeping a 51 year old woman alive. You have to wonder, are the advisory panel members so rational in all their behavior and choices? Are they always so […]

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Looking Back on ‘The Normal Heart,’ and Patients’ Activisim

Elaine Schattner, MD

They were impatient with the pace of research and physicians’ protocols, and spoke out emphatically about their needs: for more research; for prevention and treatment; for easier access to new drugs; and, simply, for good medical care.

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