{"id":871361,"date":"2026-08-25T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871361\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:38:08","slug":"opinion-montana-is-paving-the-way-for-unapproved-medical-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871361\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Montana is paving the way for unapproved medical treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CLCZQW23HVGDXFK2UHTWRU54OA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Vicki Norton is a partner at the Duane Morris law firm, where she co-leads the life sciences team. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QCSXWWWPBRA6XIHSWUXJDF3F6U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">My 84-year-old mother succumbed to pancreatic cancer while exploring experimental therapies after standard care failed. State and federal right-to-try laws allow patients like my mom to seek more-promising early-stage treatments. But these laws do not provide enough infrastructure to help patients wade through options and red tape. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vicki Norton is a partner at the Duane Morris law firm, where she co-leads the life sciences team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-871361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}