Johnson & Johnson has appointed a nationally known bioethicist to create a panel that will make decisions about patients’ requests for potentially lifesaving medicine, responding to an emotional debate over whether companies should allow desperately ill people to have access to the drugs before they are approved. Aaron Kesselheim, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
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