{"id":2854,"date":"2016-11-15T06:17:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2016-11-15T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:18:27","slug":"terminal-canadian-patients-want-right-to-try-experimental-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/terminal-canadian-patients-want-right-to-try-experimental-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminal Canadian Patients Want &#8220;Right To Try&#8221; Experimental Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group Right to Try wants permission for terminal individuals to try drugs still in the development phase. \u00a0The group says\u00a0because most of these individuals would be legally entitled to a doctor-assisted death, they should be permitted to take the risk of an experimental treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would apply to individuals with ALS, Parkinson&#8217;s disease, certain forms of cancer and other terminal illnesses. \u00a0Patients would be required to pay for it and would work with doctors to choose the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would protect doctors from lawsuits and\u00a0prosecution stemming from the treatments, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, 32 states have passed right-to-try laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The group Right to Try wants permission for terminal individuals to try drugs still in the development phase. \u00a0The group says\u00a0because most of these individuals would be legally entitled to a doctor-assisted death, they should <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/terminal-canadian-patients-want-right-to-try-experimental-treatments\/\" title=\"Terminal Canadian Patients Want &#8220;Right To Try&#8221; Experimental Treatments\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[1784,1785,598,1782,1783],"class_list":{"0":"post-2854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"tag-experimental-treatments","10":"tag-lawsuits","11":"tag-misconduct","12":"tag-right-to-try","13":"tag-terminal-illness","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}