Five states now have "right-to-try" laws

On Nov. 4 voters in Arizona overwhelmingly approved a referendum for the state to allow terminally ill patients to get drugs and devices that have completed the Food and Drug Administration's Phase One clinical trials but are still in the investigational stage. Arizona joins a quickly growing group of states with such laws. Colorado passed the first in May this year and was quickly followed by Michigan, Missouri and Lousiana. The Goldwater Institute, a conservative not-for-profit organization that's lobbying states to adopt its model right-to-try legislation, expects Nevada to be next and is targeting as many as 10 states to introduce bills next year.