US FDA Commissioner ready to back 'Right-to-Try' legislation

31 May 2018

For patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases, the US Food and Drug Administration remains committed to enhancing access to promising investigational medicines for those unable to access products through clinical trials.

“This is the mission of our expanded access program. The agency is dedicated to these purposes, and it has been for more than three decades,” commented FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

He noted that, on Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed into law the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017.

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