Compassionate Use Acts

Compassionate Use Acts are laws that allow patients with serious or life-threatening conditions to access experimental or unapproved medications outside of clinical trials, when no approved treatments are available. These laws aim to provide hope and potentially life-saving options for patients who have exhausted other treatments, while still ensuring safety and oversight by regulatory agencies. Essentially, they balance the urgent needs of individual patients with the need to carefully evaluate new medicines before they become widely available.