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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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Also submitted by mrpg
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @02:31AM (3 children)
Your current Lord has thrown you a crumb.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by SpockLogic on Friday June 01 2018, @03:00AM (1 child)
I'm OK with the right to try as long as it's the right to try the orange shitgibbon for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Friday June 01 2018, @02:13PM
Stop it man, you are putting Americans working in the table-salt industry out of work!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:45PM
uhh, real americans don't go to doctors.