Dispute over helping the terminally ill

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Many experts say that patients facing death should get to try last-ditch experimental medications, but there’s disagreement over how exactly to accomplish that.

Since 2014, 30 states have passed “right-to-try” measures allowing drug companies to give terminally ill patients new medications before they are fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration, treatments otherwise available only to patients in clinical trials.

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