Blog Entries

Welcome, from the Director of Accelerate Progress

A welcome and introduction to our organization and our website, dedicated to accelerating progress for patients fighting life-threatening illnesses

Continue Reading »

Accelerate Progress Comments on Today’s Provenge Data Release

Comments on data released today from landmark study of new immunotherapy against prostate cancer

Continue Reading »

Press

No more death by red tape

An Opinion piece by the Director of Accelerate Progress

Continue Reading »

Medicare Expands Options for Off-Label Use

Oncology News International Story on Medicare's decision to expand sources to support off-label use of new drugs

Continue Reading »

Patient Tributes

Tributes to Carol Ann Thomas

"You Light Up My Life" by Rawley Thomas and fellow Celebrants

Continue Reading »

A tribute to Roy Lilly, the man we all knew as “Coach”

A tribute to a colleague and friend with whom I worked for almost forty years

Continue Reading »

Outside Editorials

Framework for Experimental Drug Use in Terminally Ill Patients

Medscape Today Article by Roxanne Nelson covering structural issues relating to increasing patient access to experimental drugs

Continue Reading »

“The FDA is Killing Crohn’s Patients” by Gideon J. Sofer

A young man's story of his fight for life against Crohn's disease

Continue Reading »

Current Issues

Health 2.0, Patients as Partners

Can empowering patients change the nature of drug research and accelerate progress?

Continue Reading »

The Role of Investigational Therapy…

An article on the choice, and the chance, to hope, by Dr. Emil J. Freireich and Dr. Razelle Kurzrock

Continue Reading »