Why Can’t Dying Patients Get The Drugs They Want?

KATIE THOMAS, NY Times: Science
Fri, 03/23/2018 - 2:32pm

A Republican-backed “Right to Try” bill would allow patients to sidestep F.D.A. approval. But the true gatekeepers are the drug companies themselves.

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