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(114,904 posts) Wed Mar 12, 2014, 09:16 AM Mar 2014

Drug company will give ailing 7-year-old medicine that could save him [View all]

After days of pleading with drug company executives, Josh Hardy's parents got what they'd been praying for: a chance to get medicine that could help their son survive.

The Chimerix pharmaceutical company said Tuesday that the ailing 7-year-old will receive medicine that doctors hope will help him when he becomes the first patient in a new trial set to start Wednesday.

Todd Hardy, Josh's father, said he got the call from Chimerix president Kenneth Moch about a half hour before the public announcement was made.

"It was wonderful," Hardy said. "Truly wonderful. It was overwhelming."

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/health/josh-hardy-drug-study/

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Drug company will give ailing 7-year-old medicine that could save him [View all] cali Mar 2014 OP

The positive PR the company will get for this gesture will outweigh the cost of the medicine Aristus Mar 2014 #1

Unless the kids dies. dilby Mar 2014 #6

That's wonderful news leftynyc Mar 2014 #2

Yep, public shaming/ridicule is a killer app IMO. It's super powerful. tridim Mar 2014 #4

So the great man decided to spare the little boy's life jsr Mar 2014 #3

the little boy's father called the great man a hero magical thyme Mar 2014 #5

I think if my son was laying there dying 1awake Mar 2014 #7

We all would. magical thyme Mar 2014 #9

I think the important thing is to focus on the negative. Orrex Mar 2014 #10

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2014 #8

This is good news Gothmog Mar 2014 #11