

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China that led to the birth of the world’s first genome-edited babies
Quick ReadA bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China that led to the birth of the world’s first genome-edited babies
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NYC Lawmaker Endorses Plan to Break HIV-Prevention Drug’s PatentFebruary 21, 2019 |
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is HIV-positive, has endorsed a plan to make Truvada, or PrEP, generic
Quick ReadOur Gail Javitt writes, “The reality is that Right to Try is unlikely meaningfully to increase the number of terminally ill patients who can access investigational therapies or improve the outcomes for such patients. Those that claim otherwise, and who cast FDA as the primary obstacle between dying patients and lifesaving medicines, are peddling their own form of ‘snake-oil'”
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Wishes At the End of LifeMarch 27, 2018 |
Comparing the right to try and right to die
Quick ReadA key Republican lawmaker released a new version of so-called “right to try” legislation around midnight Friday, a pivotal next step in the effort to help dying patients get access to experimental therapies
Quick ReadA group of eight senators on Tuesday unveiled bipartisan legislation that would increase funding for addiction treatment and prevention by roughly $1 billion and impose a sweeping three-day limit on opioid prescriptions for initial pain treatment
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