Sacramento—A law giving terminally ill patients access to medicines that have passed Phase 1 of the FDA approval process but are not yet on pharmacy shelves has been signed by Governor Jerry Brown. This makes California the 32nd state to adopt a “Right To Try” law. Right To Try allows doctors to treat terminally ill […]
Read More ›Meet the Texas doctor using Right To Try to treat cancer patients. Washington, D.C.— A promising lifesaving treatment is now available to patients suffering from terminal neuroendocrine carcinoid cancers—a deadly type of cancer that gained attention in 2011 when Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs died from it. In testimony before the U.S. Senate, Houston-based oncologist […]
Read More ›Originally published by Ron Johnson for The Wall Street Journal The Terminally Ill Deserve Right-to-Try Laws | The Wall Street Journal In 2014 I met a young mother of three from Waukesha, Wis. Her name was Trickett Wendler, and she had the degenerative nerve disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Before her diagnosis, Trickett was living a […]
Read More ›Originally Published by Ed Silverman for Stat News. FDA approves Sarepta’s controversial drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy | Stat News The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a controversial drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare disease that confines boys to wheelchairs and condemns them to an early death. The decision came after months of […]
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