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President Trump has signed the “right to try” legislation allowing critically ill patients the right to bypass the FDA regulations for access to experimental medicine, this provides hope to many who may not have otherwise had. The FDA already has an expanded access program for compassionate use for certain seriously ill patients to apply to …
A Grand Junction resident is trying desperately to generate funding to receive stem cell treatment for COPD and an injured knee so he can walk around which would be significantly cheaper than invasive surgeries. The Navy veteran says he’s been told the experimental treatment works and would like to try it but it is very …
A research team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) published a study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, verifying that chemotherapy that kills cancer cells also triggers an inflammatory response that actually promotes aggressive tumor growth. Dipak Panigrahy, MD, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at BIDMC’s Department of Pathology states that …