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A new movement aims to make experimental drugs available to the terminally ill. They have to share more. That’s the general opinion about the rich these days, and it seems to apply in special force when it comes to a certain kind of rich: the rich involved in medical innovation. Sometimes the issue is simply […]

Arizona voters this fall will be asked to decide whether terminally-ill patients should have access to experimental drugs that have not yet been fully reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration. Pushed by the Goldwater Institute, the ballot measure in Arizona, along with bills in Colorado, Louisiana and Missouri, would give patients and their doctors […]

Should people fighting for their lives have to battle red tape? That’s the question lawmakers are considering in four states where the “Right to Try” act is moving forward – proposed legislation aimed at giving terminally ill people access to experimental, but potentially life-saving, drugs before they have FDA approval. Americans like Keith Knapp, of […]

A rare neuromuscular disease is eating away at Rose Marie Steffenson’s digestive system. Her muscles have atrophied and nerves are dying. She gets nourishment through one tube and goes to the bathroom through another. Doctors have said there is no cure. The best they can do is makeSteffenson comfortable. Unwilling to accept her death sentence, […]

For Amy Auden, the fight to gain faster access to drugs not fully sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration did not end last fall when her husband lost his two-year battle to Stage 4 melanoma. “We needed hope but didn’t receive it through our battle. I want others to have opportunities to gain access […]