In April 2016, Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff—bypassed pharmaceutical regulation and signed a bill that “guarantees” individuals with cancer access to the use of a “miracle drug” that has not been approved in clinical trials. To make matters worse, the drug, synthetic phosphoethanolamine, had, in fact, failed to fight cancer in even its laboratory tests.
http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-law-grants-patients-right-to-use-untested-cancer-drug-1.19756