The slimmed-down version was stripped of language that would have allowed children with relapsed cancer to undergo treatments with a combination of cancer drugs and therapies. (Currently the Food and Drug Administration is only authorized to direct pediatric cancer trials of single drugs.) The bill also didn't include an extension of a program that gave financial lifelines, in the form of vouchers, to small pharmaceutical companies working on rare pediatric diseases. It was also missing earlier provisions that would have allowed for kids on Medicaid or CHIP"that is, poor children"to access medically complex care across state lines. For political veterans, however, the most striking absence in the revised bill was the language that would have extended funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program. read more
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And btw anyone who has spent time in a pediatric cancer ward knows it is hell on earth.
Children who never had a chance to enjoy life are in agony as they breath their last.
Spending time in one convinced me without a doubt that there is no god
And a society that doesn't prioritize helping cancer kids is a society lost