Laetrile : The Legal Controversy (Rutherford v. U.S.).

Discusses the Supreme Court decision in Rutherford v. U.S., which ruled that Federal law permitted the Food and Drug Administration's ban on laetrile as a "new drug" in its application to terminally-ill cancer patients, but remanded for further consideration the question of whether th...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1979-1980.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Discusses the Supreme Court decision in Rutherford v. U.S., which ruled that Federal law permitted the Food and Drug Administration's ban on laetrile as a "new drug" in its application to terminally-ill cancer patients, but remanded for further consideration the question of whether the ban was invalid for legal or constitutional reasons.
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