There's almost no mention of it in the mainstream media, but there was a very important law which President Trump signed yesterday. It's called the Right To Try law. It allows people with terminal illnesses to try drugs that have not yet been finally approved by the FDA. It means that people with no other hope will be allowed to try new drugs that are still in the pipeline in the hopes that they will be helped.
It will be a decision made by the individual. Doctors still cannot prescribe the experimental drugs. Patients can be told about them, though. If the patient decides to take the risk of possible side effects, he or she can now go ahead and try the new drugs.
This is a way around a major problem, the slow and painstaking process that the FDA uses to approve new submissions. The law also gives the drug company the ability to provide the experimental drug to the patient without fear of litigation if it doesn't work, or if it causes side effects.
More than anything else, this law will provide hope to a group of people who now have none. Participation is voluntary; no one will be forced to try the new drugs. For many people, though, this hope is a blessing.
The new law is something that is much more important than Roseanne or the Russia-Trump investigation. Why can't the media cover it? Oh, I forgot, they can't cover it because it makes president Trump and the Republican Congress look good.
It will be a decision made by the individual. Doctors still cannot prescribe the experimental drugs. Patients can be told about them, though. If the patient decides to take the risk of possible side effects, he or she can now go ahead and try the new drugs.
This is a way around a major problem, the slow and painstaking process that the FDA uses to approve new submissions. The law also gives the drug company the ability to provide the experimental drug to the patient without fear of litigation if it doesn't work, or if it causes side effects.
More than anything else, this law will provide hope to a group of people who now have none. Participation is voluntary; no one will be forced to try the new drugs. For many people, though, this hope is a blessing.
The new law is something that is much more important than Roseanne or the Russia-Trump investigation. Why can't the media cover it? Oh, I forgot, they can't cover it because it makes president Trump and the Republican Congress look good.
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