From February 24th

This was one of the strongest and most powerful articles I read all semester.  Titled Cycle of a Drug Trial: Recovery and Relapse, Then Rebuilding it features Dr. Keith Flaherty, a leading investigator against melanoma.  He is trying to help  a patient Chris Nelson.  After successfully keeping Nelson alive for an extra year he has to keep fighting the melanoma as it comes back.  Unfortunately Dr. Flaherty isn't able to obtain the medicine needed because of how difficult it is to get a drug on the market.

This article was powerful because of how he author treated the subject matter.  It's a hotly debate right now, should we rush medicine to try to save peoples live before we know all the side effects?  Theirs really no right answer but the author gives plenty and plenty of facts and does a good job of capturing the opinions of the doctor, the Nelson family, and the drug companies themselves.  It's a powerful article to read and leaves the reader with a bad feeling in their stomach.