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New online navigator helps patients and doctors access experimental treatments

A new online navigator helps patients with serious or life-threatening illnesses find and apply for access to investigational drugs that may help them.

When approved therapies don’t work, or stop working, for people with serious or life-threatening illnesses, it puts them in a difficult position. Some turn to clinical trials that are testing experimental treatments. But many can’t do that because they are too sick, don’t meet the requirements of the trial, or can’t afford to travel to the site of a trial. That doesn’t mean they are out

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