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treatment IND (medicine) and Sisyphean (iou)


treatment IND (medicine)


treatment ind


An FDA-approved program that allows a physician to procure an experimental drug for seriously ill patients who have no Other treatment options in exchange for data on the safety and perhaps the effectiveness of the drug.

See: compassionate use, parallel track, expanded access.


Sisyphean (iou)



Sisyphean adjective. Also (earlier) Sisyphian. L16.
[Latin Sisypheius from Greek Sisupheios, from Sisuphos Sisyphus: see below, -EAN, -IAN.]
Of or pertaining to Sisyphus, in Greek mythology a king of Corinth whose punishment in Hades was to push uphill a stone which rolled down again as soon as he reached the top; resembling the fruitless toil of Sisyphus; endless and ineffective.
American Speech The more such chores are postponed, the more Sisyphean the task becomes.