Trump Signs Bill to Allow Patients to Try Experimental Treatments

Trump Signs Bill to Allow Patients to Try Experimental Treatments
President Donald Trump hugs a boy with muscular dystrophy at the signing ceremony for the Right to Try legislation at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2018. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
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President Donald Trump signed the Right to Try Act into law at the White House Wednesday. The law allows terminally ill patients to try experimental treatments not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Trump endorsed the Right to Try Act during his State of the Union Speech earlier this year.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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