It's sad that the drug didn't work (and I had a cousin recently die of ALS), but it's important to let the FDA do their work.
If anything we live in a world where we need better provisions for these illnesses similar to https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/190...
Waiting for phased trials when you understand the research and hypothetical risks is torture. Especially when many drugs have proven safety profiles where the only harm is financial.
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FDA-2023-E-2605
Interesting!
The FDA has been 'working' on authorizing sunscreen widely used in the rest of the developed world for the last 20 years, or since the original Dubya administration. This is not a typo. They are glacially, bureaucratically slow & cautious
That said, I feel like there should absolutely be an almost automatic approval for stuff sold in multiple other countries for decades.