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What is 'right to try,' and could it help?

  • Written by Morten Wendelbo, Lecturer, Bush School of Government and Public Service; Research Fellow, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs; and, Policy Sciences Lecturer, Texas A&M University Libraries, Texas A&M University
In this March 18, 2011 photo, Cassidy Hempel waved at hospital staff as she was being treated for a rare disorder. Her mother Chris, left, fought to gain permission for an experimental drug.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

After a year in which President Donald Trump devoted much of his health policy attention to the repeal and replace of the...

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