Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. In the past three years, 33 U.S. states have passed laws aimed at ...

Do you have personal experience with right-to-try or the FDA’s expanded access program? Does right-to-try provide hope or does it allow for the exploitation of vulnerable people?

While we need to be innovative in addressing such exploitation, a key pillar of any solution already exists in communities across the globe: education. Education is a foundational human right that ...

Supporters say these patients are just looking for the “right to try” these treatments. Such laws may sound compassionate, but medical ethicists warn they pose worrisome risks to the health ...

Supporters say these patients are just looking for the “right to try” these treatments. Such laws may sound compassionate, but medical ethicists warn they pose worrisome risks to the health ...

Supporters say these patients are just looking for the "right to try" these treatments. Such laws may sound compassionate, but medical ethicists warn they pose worrisome risks to the health and ...