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Committee advances 'Hope for Georgia Patients' bill to allow individualized experimental therapies for rare disease patients
Summary
The House Health Committee advanced the Hope for Georgia Patients Act, which supporters say would let clinicians in approved Georgia facilities use individualized experimental therapies for rare disease and certain cancer patients when conventional options are exhausted.
Senators and witnesses on the House Health Committee advanced legislation known in testimony as the Hope for Georgia Patients Act, a measure intended to create legal protections and a “safe harbor” that would let doctors and federally wide assurance‑approved facilities provide individualized treatments for patients with rare diseases and certain cancers.
Senator Brass, who presented the bill, said it would allow Georgia clinicians to use treatments “based on the individualized condition and DNA of the patient,” and would permit use of therapies that have not completed the traditional FDA approval process when those therapies are tailored to a single patient…
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