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 commences search for new Executive Director
Accelerate Progress is looking for strong organizational leadership
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
Uncle Sam, M.D.
A WSJ Op-Ed contribution by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Deputy Commissioner at FDA, currently a Fellow at AEI as well as a practicing physician
Continue Reading »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 »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
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