Compassionate use, Right to Try, and drugs approved for other uses are among the mechanisms being explored for rapid relief. Compassionate Use. Among the mechanisms being used to get drugs into the hands of providers and patients is compassionate use, also known as expanded access. This enables physicians to request use of an experimental drug outside of clinical trials for patients with an immediately life-threatening condition or serious disease.

"We have criteria and very speedy approval for that," said Hahn. In cases where drugs are employed for compassionate use, data collected from those experiences help determine the safety and efficacy of these treatments, he explained.
Two drugs and one therapeutic solution under development