Expanded right-to-try law would encourage more innovative, life-saving treatments - THE JOSIAH BARTLETT CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Expanded right-to-try law would encourage more innovative, life-saving treatments - THE JOSIAH BARTLETT CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Nine years ago, New Hampshire adopted a right-to-try law. It allows terminally ill patients to access medications that have cleared Phase 1 clinical trials but are not commercially available.  Since that law passed, huge gains have been made in the treatment of rare illnesses. New Hampshire’s law has fallen out of date. A bill working its way through the Legislature this year could not only update the law but leap the state ahead of others, maki…