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Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:10 PM Mar 2016

Just great, Maine now has the "right" to have peoples' wallets cleaned out by quacks. [View all]

Laetrile, anyone?

Homeopathy?

Maine: New England’s 1st ‘right to try’ experimental drugs

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is the first state in New England to give dying patients the right to use experimental drugs.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage signed legislation Wednesday that allows terminally ill patients to use treatments that have not received final approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The bill stipulates that doctors and drug companies wouldn’t be held liable for any harm; it does not require insurance companies to pay for the treatments, which will be available to patients expected to live less than six months.

http://wbay.com/ap/maine-new-englands-1st-right-to-try-experimental-drugs/

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