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Dying, Desperate Patients Get the Right to Try Unproven Cures

Dying, Desperate Patients Get the Right to Try Unproven Cures

(Bloomberg) --


Should a patient dying of a disease with no proven cure have the right to try whatever experimental drug they want? A controversial new law signed by President Trump this year says that they should, bypassing the FDA. In episode seven, Bloomberg's Michelle Fay Cortez explores what the new Right To Try law means for desperate patients who want access to experimental treatments. It isn't as simple as it sounds.

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