Talk:Right-to-try law

Working on edits to this page.
I will be working on some edits to this page. If you have any edits of your own, I would appreciate you letting me know about them her. Thanks!DaKine (talk) 04:54, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for whatever you can do. I posted some comments here.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  14:57, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I made a change to the page after you started editing. I would be happy to help intergrate it into your edited version. --Snipergang (talk) 20:29, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Potential sources
The ideal sources would cover this issue broadly. Many of the sources focus on just one part of this, and it is challenging to get the big picture information Wikipedia needs. I looked around and found these sources which the article currently does not cite:

Most available sources lean critical. The publication field has mostly paid promotion and lobbyists on the side of expanding this practice and mostly consumer advocates seeking patient safety on the critical side.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  14:49, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Merge? Similar topics
This article, Right-to-try law, is getting 20k pageviews a month so is super-popular and in the top 0.1% by popularity. A similar article, Expanded access, gets about 2k pageviews a month. Both of these articles describe a category of drugs which include Orphan drugs, 10k pageviews a month so highly popular, but the concept is broader than just orphan drugs.

Here are some distinct topics which probably could each have their own wiki articles:
 * general concept of right-to-try / expanded access, which would be the top level article
 * legal regulation of this concept in the United States, listing the laws over the years and summarizing contemporary discussion around them
 * Wikipedia article like "orphan drug" but titled for this currently unnamed class of drugs which are the focus of expanded access

An immediate challenge in developing this article is considering what to do with right to try versus expanded access. The concepts are close and currently Wikipedia does not distinguish them clearly.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  14:56, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Questionable copy removed from "Outcome" section
I have removed the following from the Outcome section for discussion:
 * Natalie Harp, who was diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer and left housebound by a medical error one year after the bill passed. Both voiced their support for the law and praised the Trump administration’s fight for healthcare..

Although this woman appeared on FOX news claiming that the Trump Right to Try legislation had helped her I see no evidence that she was enrolled in a drug trial, only that her physician used drugs in a manner in which they were not intended to be used - which as far as I know is fairly common. (The copy refers to "...both voiced their support..." The other patient has yet to find access to a drug trial.) Gandydancer (talk) 15:05, 3 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Looking up off label use of drugs, yes I did find that it is legal. Gandydancer (talk) 16:02, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Natural Cures
Do Right-to-Try laws include natural cures? 2A01:6500:A040:CE3C:970A:4869:D301:4E02 (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * They only apply to prescription drugs. The text may not be clear enough, so if you have ideas for changing it then try.  Bluerasberry   (talk)  15:20, 16 September 2023 (UTC)