NEW: “Right to Try” Legislation Goes Before Senate Committee Thursday Afternoon
Thursday, June 15, 2017
After the House passed the "Right to Try Act," the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services is taking it up Thursday.
In April, the House of Representatives approved legislation submitted by Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) that would create the Rhode Island Terminally Ill Patients Right to Try Act, which allows terminally ill patients to obtain experimental drugs that have not yet been federally approved but are in the final stages of FDA testing.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTIn May, Wendy and Dean Fachon appeared on GoLocal LIVE and spoke of their effort pressing for the legislation to allow terminally ill patients to obtain experimental drugs that have not yet been federally approved but may be in the final stages of testing -- after their son Neil fought the Food and Drug Administration to do so, before passing away at the age of 20 from pediatric cancer.
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