Tag washington post | Right to Try

May 11, 2015 by goldwater

How companies decide whether to give experimental drugs to dying patients

Originally posted in the Washington Post by Ana Swanson Joshua Hardy, an 8-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., came very close to dying last March. He was battling a life-threatening infection that he developed after receiving a bone marrow stem cell transplant when his doctors recommended he try a medicine called Brincidofovir, then in the final phase […]

‘How do you tell a kid he’s not going to grow up?’

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 […]