{"id":82344,"date":"2018-10-16T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82344"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:06","slug":"trump-signs-right-to-try-legislation-on-experimental-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82344","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs &#8216;right-to-try&#8217; legislation on experimental medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/30\/trump-signs-right-to-try-legislation-on-experimental-medicines.html?fbclid=IwAR0eur3yRe0NTBelxJqfg4UhxX5fWtO9Ocl37zAnUzB7FIPtDZugMQ2c3n8\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/105240468-Screengrab.600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/30\/trump-signs-right-to-try-legislation-on-experimental-medicines.html?fbclid=IwAR0eur3yRe0NTBelxJqfg4UhxX5fWtO9Ocl37zAnUzB7FIPtDZugMQ2c3n8\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/105239926-RTX66V6F.1910x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The legislation allows patients with life-threatening conditions to ask drugmakers for medicines that have cleared some testing but still haven&#8217;t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had been major supporters of the &#8220;right-to-try&#8221; legislation, which would bypass drug regulators to give gravely ill patients access to experimental medicines.<\/li>\n<li>Proponents say this gives patients hope they would not otherwise have.<\/li>\n<li>Critics say the legislation undermines the FDA&#8217;s authority to regulate drugs and could leave patients vulnerable to medicines that might not work or may even be harmful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More progress and long overdue.\u00a0 My daughter had cancer at 19, one of the drugs that increased her chances of survival had just been released back then.\u00a0 Prior to that drug survival rates were 50\/50 and with that drug, they have been about 94%.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/30\/trump-signs-right-to-try-legislation-on-experimental-medicines.html\">Trump signs &#8216;right-to-try&#8217; legislation on experimental medicines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislation allows patients with life-threatening conditions to ask drugmakers for medicines that have cleared some &hellip; <a title=\"Trump signs &#8216;right-to-try&#8217; legislation on experimental medicines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82344\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump signs &#8216;right-to-try&#8217; legislation on experimental medicines<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}