Sentence examples for compassionate use from inspiring English sources
noun
The semi-official use of a drug that has not yet gained official approval in cases where no other treatment is possible
Such information led us to start MEK162 treatment on compassionate use base in our patient.
The F.D.A. regularly approves such programs, known as "compassionate use," for promising experimental drugs.
It allows "compassionate use" of some unapproved drugs by individual patients.
"We felt we could not turn them away and so gave the drug in compassionate use".
Before that, peramivir had been available only through a more cumbersome "compassionate use" procedure.
After all, it's harder to make a case for compassionate use when vodka and martini shakers are involved.
Physicians, regulators and pharmaceutical companies need to find a way to democratize and rationalize access to compassionate-use therapies.
She then received veltuzumab on a compassionate-use basis and achieved disease remission.
SC veltuzumab was used on a compassionate-use basis in a patient with refractory pemphigus vulgaris.
Thanks to its compassionate-use program, though, AstraZeneca had extra help.
She received veltuzumab on a compassionate-use basis and responded well, with B cell depletion and remarkable clinical improvement [35].
