Outside my window, in the early morning light, I could see the bright red Coca Cola sign shine larger than any other in the city. “Yeah, Atlanta, the birth place of Coke.” I’ve awakened more times than I can count in the last two months wondering—what city am I in? Which coast am […]
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Originally published in the Washington Post by Brady Dennis “You wake up in the morning, and you think your kid is fine, and you go to bed that night, and you know they’re dying,” Mindy Leffler says, describing what it felt like to receive a diagnosis that her son Aidan has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a […]
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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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Originally published in the Indianapolis Star by Gregg Doyel At the end, Georgia wouldn’t look at her children. For weeks they’d been rolling her wheelchair to the living room window in French Lick, where she could look into the yard and see what they were doing out there, but at the end they left her […]
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Originally published in the Virginia Daily Press by Prue Salasky On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Gov.Terry McAuliffe signed HB 1750— the Virginia Right To Try Act — into law. The Goldwater Institute, an advocate for “Right to Try,” issued this statement: “The Virginia House and Senate passed the bill in February with unanimous bipartisan support. […]
Read More ›Jordan is the face of Indiana’s “right to try” bill, which gives the terminally ill access to experimental drugs that are not FDA approved. He was front and center on Tuesday at This list shows you exactly what to look for and take into the state capitol, even delivering the pen to Indiana Gov. Mike […]
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