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Old 06-02-2008, 10:40 AM
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Default "compassionate use"

The theory that PD is a disease of many different etiologies, the given that some therapies may help one subset of PD patients but not others, would cry out for "compassionate use" of clinical trial meds for that group of patients for whom the drug is effective.
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