'Right to Try Act' gives hope to dying patients

Linda Griffiths’ ALS regularly makes itself known in the form of something else she no longer is able to do.

She accepts the new life the disease has forced her into, but she won’t call it a death sentence. Not yet.

Less than a year ago, Griffiths, of Golden Valley, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, robbing patients of their ability to move and eventually, even to breathe. Most die within two to five years.

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