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Clinical trials

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Coronavirus

The FDA Should Immediately Approve Pfizer's Anti-COVID-19 Pill Paxlovid

The omicron COVID-19 variant is likely to sweep through the country in the next month or so.

Ronald Bailey | 12.14.2021 1:15 PM

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Vaccines

U.K. Approves Clinical Trial That Will Deliberately Expose Volunteers to the COVID-19 Virus

It's a good idea, but it should have been done much earlier.

Ronald Bailey | 2.18.2021 3:45 PM

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Coronavirus

Masks Not Very Effective at Protecting Wearers, Says New Danish Study

But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus.

Ronald Bailey | 11.18.2020 4:25 PM

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Coronavirus

Hydroxychloroquine Is Conspicuously Absent from Trump's COVID-19 Treatment Regimen

And that's good.

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2020 3:35 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Race Rushes Toward the Finish Line

Safe and effective vaccines by the end of this year?

Ronald Bailey | 7.27.2020 6:00 PM

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Coronavirus

Hydroxychloroquine 'Is Not a Treatment for COVID-19. It Doesn't Work.'

The antimalarial drug is being removed from United Kingdom's RECOVERY trial evaluating COVID-19 therapies.

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2020 2:30 PM

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Coronavirus

The Lancet's Hydroxychloroquine Study Is Retracted by Its Authors

The observational dataset on which it was based could not be properly audited.

Ronald Bailey | 6.4.2020 5:00 PM

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Coronavirus

Does That Malaria Medicine Work on COVID-19 After All?

A major study in The Lancet said it doesn't—but it may have relied on fabricated data.

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2020 1:10 PM

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Coronavirus

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Increase COVID-19 Patients' Risk of Death, Says New Study

The World Health Organization pauses clinical trials in light of disturbing new results.

Ronald Bailey | 5.26.2020 3:20 PM

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Coronavirus

Human Challenge Trials for Coronavirus Vaccines Are Ethical and Should Be Initiated Quickly

Volunteers would earn cash for the risks they take on our behalf.

Ronald Bailey | 5.7.2020 4:15 PM

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Coronavirus

FDA To Announce Emergency Use Authorization for Antiviral Remdesivir as COVID-19 Treatment

Promising randomized controlled trial results indicate the drug shortens time to recovery

Ronald Bailey | 4.29.2020 4:15 PM

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Coronavirus

Leaked Study Finds No Benefit from Antiviral Remdesivir in Treating COVID-19

A contrast with last week's leaked results from a University of Chicago study

Ronald Bailey | 4.23.2020 4:20 PM

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Coronavirus

Antiviral Is Reportedly Effective in Treating Severe Cases of COVID-19

STAT reports leaked comments of University of Chicago researcher

Ronald Bailey | 4.16.2020 5:35 PM

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Coronavirus

Hydroxychloroquine Trial for Treating COVID-19 Disappoints

"The best available evidence does not support the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19."

Ronald Bailey | 4.16.2020 3:10 PM

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Coronavirus

Deliberately Infect Healthy Young People To Test Coronavirus Vaccines, Propose Bioethicists

An idea that could really speed up vaccine development

Ronald Bailey | 3.27.2020 5:30 PM

Hydroxychloroquine

Coronavirus

Trump Suggests Anti-Malarial Drug Chloroquine Is an Effective Treatment Against COVID-19

FDA is reportedly cutting red tape to give expanded access to COVID-19 patients.

Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2020 3:15 PM

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Drugs

FDA May Soon Allow MDMA Prescriptions for PTSD

MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985, could be available by prescription as soon as 2021.

Jacob Sullum | 7.31.2018 6:00 AM

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Donald Trump

Trump and How to Speed Up FDA Regulatory Approvals

Slashing the restraints on the agency's slow and burdensome process.

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2017 3:15 PM

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Culture

Broken Science

What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?

Ronald Bailey | 1.19.2016 6:00 AM

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Civil Liberties

Should Terminal Patients Be Allowed to Try Experimental Drugs?

"Right to try" laws offer hope for people trying to save their own lives.

Alex Manning | 12.23.2015 12:00 AM

Pharmaceuticals

Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Is Now $2.6 Billion—Up from $800 Million, Says Study

Ronald Bailey | 11.18.2014 2:35 PM

Politics

Building a 21st Century FDA

A better way to fast track new pills for old ills

Ronald Bailey | 4.24.2012 4:45 PM

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