Written by Laurie McGinley for the Washington Post “Where’s Jordan?” asked Vice President Pence as he walked into the White House meeting of terminally ill patients and their families. All eyes shifted, and Pence made a beeline for a 7-year-old boy from Indianapolis with a broad grin. Back home, when Pence was Indiana’s governor, Jordan McLinn and […]
Read More ›Written by Bob Tedeschi for Stat News. Harrisburg, Pa. — To hear Bob Godshall tell it, he has no business being alive. Eleven years ago, at age 72, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of bone cancer. His doctors told him to get his affairs in order. He’d be gone within a year. But when Godshall […]
Read More ›Frankfort, KY—Today a law protecting the right of terminally ill patients to access to medicines that have passed Phase 1 of the FDA approval process but are not yet on pharmacy shelves was passed by the Kentucky State House 87-7. The law previously passed in the State Senate with unanimous, bipartisan support. The Kentucky Right To […]
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