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Trump signs 'right to try' drug bill
President Trump signed a bill Wednesday allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental medical treatments not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dubbed "right to try," the law's passage was a major priority of Trump and Vice President Pence, as well as congressional Republicans.
"Thousands of terminally ill Americans will finally have hope, and the fighting chance, and I think it's going to better than a chance, that they will be cured, they will be helped, and be able to be with their families for a long time, or maybe just for a longer time," Trump said at a bill signing ceremony at the White House, surrounded by terminally ill patients and their families.
Trump thanked lawmakers sitting in the audience who sponsored the bill, including Sen. Joe Donnelly, a vulnerable Democrat up for reelection in Indiana.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday June 01 2018, @04:23AM
When they prescribe something for the first time. Don't you RTFM? Some of those drugs can KILL YOU if you don't read and pay heed to those warnings. Are you a fricking End User or something? You are what is wrong with America! You want somebody to do your thinking and deciding for you. Freedom is too much responsibility.
Never, no FB account. But I know a TOS or EULA ain't worth squat legally so I don't really bother with them generally. Tech companies are going to screw you regardless of what they say anyway, any information you give them will be used against you and you have zero recourse unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars lying around without a better use than a likely pointless legal exercise.
But yeah, I support this bill. It takes a minimum of a decade to get a drug through the FDA's normal path. Everybody obsesses over people who die from a drug that doesn't work because they can see those dead bodies, see they died as a result of a bad drug, people can be sued, lose their jobs over it, etc. The FDA does likewise, taking a nobody will get fired for ordering another round of clinical trials just to be extra sure stance. But everybody is forgetting the unseen piles of bodies, those who died waiting. Take the next big drug approval, listen to them talk about how many lives per year it will save. Now consider that for every year that could have been saved in the approval process that many people could have been saved, that many people died waiting.
Yes, many drugs fail in testing, some in really splashy and embarrassing ways that can end the pharma company responsible for the failure. So yes we do need an approval process, we need testing, we need to make sure stuff really works before going from the lab to widescale production. We also need to keep the people who are dying from these diseases in mind as well. Especially when we are talking about terminal conditions with no current treatment. It isn't the end of the world if the next big wiener pill gets delayed, but cancer kills people. F*ck cancer.