{"id":6235,"date":"2017-03-23T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:42:51","slug":"with-patients-demanding-experimental-drugs-right-to-try-is-becoming-the-law-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6235","title":{"rendered":"With patients demanding experimental drugs, \u2018right to try\u2019 is becoming the law of the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bob Tedeschi for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">H<\/span>ARRISBURG, Pa.\u00a0\u2014 To hear Bob Godshall tell it, he has no business being alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\">Eleven years ago, at age 72, he was diagnosed with<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/02\/23\/cancer-genome-multiple-myeloma\/\" target=\"_blank\">multiple myeloma<\/a>, a type of bone cancer. His doctors told him to get his affairs in order. He\u2019d be gone within a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/23\/right-to-try\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--UCAUY_gtY1Jw36gxd0LRPSO-Xetq3rUGuSNLqvdpxhPyg2OBMIwpKCpsHVtqnW-jqV5iCl0CKWGsFWG6HP58hT8c_uQ&amp;_hsmi=48997621\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bob Tedeschi for STAT) HARRISBURG, Pa.\u00a0\u2014 To hear Bob Godshall tell it, he has no business being alive. Eleven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}