Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that a new, unnamed drug had revived a patient who had been given the last rites, claiming 'we've taken people that were dead' during a press event on Monday 11 May as Dr Mehmet Oz looked on. The 79-year-old president, now back in the Oval Office, offered no name, data or manufacturer for the treatment, but insisted: 'We know the drug works.'
The news came after years of controversy over experimental medicines in the United States and follows Trump's own championing of the Right to Try Act, which he originally signed during his first administration. That law opened the door for terminally ill patients to access drugs that have not yet completed the full US regulatory process.
