Iplex

This is a drug used experimentally, and now cautiously, in the treatment of Lou Gehrig's disease. Interesting article in the Times last Sunday about one family's fight to get it for a family member.
Heartbreaking. On the one hand, you can see the agony (especially of the man's mother) and quest to get the drug. Yet, the drug companies and the F.D.A. must exercise caution. (Thus patients and their families are caught in a bind because they're fighting a clock.)