Laetrile [electronic resource] : The Legal Controversy (Rutherford v. U.S.)

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Publication:

[S.l] : [publisher not identified], 1979-1980.

Format/Description:

Government document
Book
1 online resource (4 pages) : digital, PDF file

Subjects:

Cancer.
Drugs.
Judge-made law.

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Summary:

Discusses the Supreme Court decision in Rutherford volumes 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.

Notes:

CRS Report.
Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Other format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Laetrile: The Legal Controversy (Rutherford v. U.S.)

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Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2393706

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