RE:Right to tryPandora wrote
Great speech tonight at the RNC by a cancer survivor re the "Right to Try". Name of Natalie Harp. Supposedly she was a write off by most medical experts but had the door opened by "Right to Try". Not sure what medication she ended up using but she sure praised the fact she had a new option. Right to Try More political than helpful.
Right-to-try laws are U.S. state laws and a federal law that were created with the intent of allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental therapies (drugs, biologics, devices) that have completed Phase I testing but have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Prior to the passage of right to try laws, patients needed FDA approval to use experimental drugs. Currently, 41 U.S. states have passed right to try laws. The value of these laws has been questioned on multiple grounds, including the fact that pharmaceutical manufacturers would have no obligation to provide the therapies being sought.[1] A federal right to try law was passed in May 2018, but as of June 2019 only two patients had been accepted for experimental therapies.[2] According to Scott Gottlieb, who served as commissioner of the FDA under President Donald Trump, the FDA had approved 99% of patient requests for access to experimental drugs prior to the passage of right to try legislation.[3]