Do Patients Have The Right To Try?

Do Patients have the Right to Try?

President Donald Trump signed the Right to Try Act of 2017 in May this year. Under the Act, patients can directly approach a drug manufacturing company for access to investigational medicines, bypassing the FDA's authorization.

We already have a similar program called the Expanded Access by the FDA, which has granted terminally and seriously ill patients access to investigational devices and drugs since…