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 ...

federal right-to-try legislation would fail to facilitate access to potentially life-saving drugs for terminally ill patients and may even make those patients more vulnerable to exploitation.

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?

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 ...