Bill would boost coverage for clinical-trial patients

 
By Jim Stafford
Published: January 23, 2008

When doctors at Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City told Steffanie Collings ' parents that her last, best hope to survive the tumor that invaded her brain would be a stem cell transplant, they readily agreed to the procedure.

But then the Noble family's health insurance carrier balked at a course of treatment it considered to be a clinical trial and not qualified for coverage. The treatment was put on hold.

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