Originally published in WCSH 6 Maine by Katharine Bavoso VERONA ISLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — A state representative who lost his own father to cancer wants to give terminally ill patients one last option for life. It’s a bill that was passed by 12 states last year, the Right To Try bill, and State Rep. Karl […]
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Originally published in WBRC 6 Alabama SHELBY COUNTY, AL (WBRC)-A family’s fight to save their son is the focus of state senate bill that would allow terminally ill patients more treatment options. Senate Bill 357 is so-called “Right to Try” legislation that an Alabama Senate committee will consider Wednesday afternoon. It would “authorize a terminally […]
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Originally published in the Salem Register-Guard by Jonathan Cooper SALEM — The House voted Tuesday to make Oregon the latest state seeking to give dying patients a chance to try experimental medical treatments that haven’t been approved by government regulators. The bill passed the House without opposition, sending it to the Senate, though it’s not clear […]
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Originally published in FOX 13 Salt Lake City by Robert Boyd SALT LAKE CITY — A new Utah law signed by Gov. Gary Herbert Wednesday could extend or even save the lives of terminally ill patients, and the new “Right to Try” legislation lets patients seek treatments that haven’t been fully approved by the federal […]
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Originally published in the Washington Post by Amy Ellis Nutt and Brady Dennis For people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which attacks the body’s motor neurons and renders a person unable to move, swallow or breathe, the search for an effective treatment has been a crushing disappointment. The only drug available for the disease, approved two […]
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