U.S. House Sets Vote on Bill Allowing Use of Unproven Drugs for Dying Patients

Solange Reyner : Mar 14, 2018
Newsmax.com

"...the bill has been a long time coming, but in striking the right balance for patients and their safety, the House is on track to deliver hopeful news for patients desperately seeking the right to try investigational treatments and therapies." -Committee chairman Greg Walden, R-OR, and the panel's health subcommittee chairman, Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX

(Washington, DC)—[Newsmax.com] Legislation that would enable terminally ill patients to use unproven, investigational drugs will go before the House Tuesday for a vote, according to The Hill. (Photo: Creative Commons/via Pixabay)

The "Right to Try" bill, introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona., passed in the Senate last August and is being pushed by President Donald Trump and Vice President...

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