NYU’s Caplan: Right to Try laws are meaningless, empty hot air, unethical, and utterly ineffective

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The right-to-try bills passed by Congress would remove FDA’s expanded access mandate and leave patients at greater risk, said Arthur Caplan, the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University School of Medicine.

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Matthew Bin Han Ong
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