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作       者:Olsen, Darcy

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2015-11-01

字       数:48.7万

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Why should you need the government’s permission to save your own lifeJenn McNary’s two sons, Max and Austin, were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and eventually death. In a cruel and unnecessary twist, Max received access to a clinical trial; Austin didn’t. As a result, Max was able to get out of his wheelchair and play on his school soccer team while Austin continued to deteriorate until he could not even feed himself. The FDA takes as long as fifteen years to approve a new drug, demanding near-absolute proof of effectiveness before allowing commercial distribution. But this ignores the urgent plight of millions of terminally ill Americans who have run out of approved options—and are running out of time. These patients are not looking for a 100 percent guarantee that a treatment will work for them. They are looking for a fighting chance. Why can’t they have that chanceWhy don’t they have the right to try . . . the right to save their own livesAuthor and activist Darcy Olsen, president of the Goldwater Institute, tells the remarkable story behind the Right to Try movement, the national campaign to give dying Americans access to cutting-edge treatments that are under study but still years away from receiving the FDA’s green light. The men, women, and children featured in these pages are our own family members, friends, and neighbors. Their heartbreaking, triumphant, and inspirational stories prove the necessity for Right to Try laws. Because everyone deserves the Right to Try.
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Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Meet Lazarus: The First Man in Medical History to Survive Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Chapter 1: Sophie’s Choice: How the FDA Let a Mother Save One Son . . . and Left Her Other Son to Die

Chapter 2: Five Thousand Miles for a Cure: How One American Family Moved Overseas to Save Their Dying Son

Chapter 3: What Steve Jobs Saw: How the FDA Stops American Doctors from Using a Proven Cancer Treatment

Chapter 4: Making Medical Miracles: The Cutting-Edge Cancer Killers You Can’t Get Yet

Chapter 5: Inside Man: How One Biotech CEO Came to Champion Right to Try

Chapter 6: We Are the 99 Percent: How Right to Try Has Taken America by Storm

Chapter 7: Compassionate Use: The Mythical Unicorn

Chapter 8: Would You Use a Fifteen-Year-Old Cell Phone?: How to Get American Medicine Back on Top

Chapter 9: If You Have the Right to Die, You Should Have the Right to Try

Chapter 10: Where Do I Start?: A Step-by-Step Guide to Seeking an Investigational Treatment

Afterword: Everyone Deserves the Right to Try: An Update on Jenn McNary, Ted Harada, and Diego Morris

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Photographs

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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