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Trying to get it right: a blog carnival about Right to Try

The crux of Right to Try legislation, enacted by 37 U.S. states so far, is the premise that terminally ill patients should have access to experimental therapies, even if they haven’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration yet. It sounds straight-forward...

Valuing the good, the bad and the ugly

As with all of my posts that relate to anything that might end up being a medical treatment, it is important to be very clear that I am a scientist and not a physician.  My comments are my own opinion and based on my experience as a stem cell biologist over the last...

A prescription of hope

By Brian Sladek I am honoured to have my blog be just one of several covering this topic as part of Signal’s second annual blog carnival on the theme ‘Right to Try.’ Please click here to read what other bloggers think of this. As a patient, I don’t care about...

Right Turn: ‘Right to try’ state of affairs in U.S.

On Tuesday, August 29, Signals is hosting a blog carnival on the topic Right to Try. Before you read the perspectives of the contributing bloggers, here’s what President Trump thinks about the legislation and the Goldwater Institute’s reaction. It’s the Institute that...

Weighing in on a controversial topic

We are less than one week away from Signals’ second blog carnival! Last month I promised to reveal the topic and the participants. I also hinted that this year’s topic might strike some readers as controversial. Given that a few invited bloggers declined to...