Mary Ann Chirba is a professor of legal reasoning, research & writing at the Boston College Law School in Newton, Mass.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resource about the development and approval of new drugs.

Dec. 18, 2006, The New Yorker article by Dr. Jerome Groopman about the Abigail Alliance case.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe is a senior adviser and co-founder of the Health Research Group, one of Public Citizen’s five policy groups. Public Citizen is a nonprofit public interest group in Washington, D.C. Contact Angela Bradbery, director of communications.

Kenneth Kaitin is director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development in Boston.

Scott Ballenger is founder of the Trial Acceleration Institute in Spring House, Pa., which assists stakeholders in speeding up clinical trials.

Frank Palumbo is a professor and director of the Center on Drugs and Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS is the oldest non-profit organization of its kind in the U.S. It works to educate and empower African American leaders to fight and help protect against HIV/AIDS in local communities through education, policy, advocacy, research and resource development.

Read a Guttmacher Institute study published May 28, 2013.