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Diagnosis

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FDA

Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule

RFK Jr. should accept the ruling and instruct the agency to immediately halt all efforts to regulate laboratory-developed and in vitro tests.

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2025 1:30 PM

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Innovation

Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential in Early Trial

The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent.

Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2025 2:25 PM

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Health

Should You Be Able To Take an Alzheimer's Test at Home?

Plus, an AI-generated version of the same article

Ronald Bailey | 5.23.2024 6:00 AM

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Regulation

FDA Once Again Stands Athwart Biomedical Innovation, Yelling 'Stop!'

New red tape will result in fewer safe and effective diagnostic tests.

Ronald Bailey | 4.29.2024 4:15 PM

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Coronavirus

FDA Finally Gets Around to Approving Pfizer's Anti-COVID Pill

It's another case of bureaucratic incompetence as the omicron wave surges.

Ronald Bailey | 12.22.2021 2:30 PM

BidenOmicron | Ken Cedeno/UPI/Newscom

Coronavirus

Biden Says the U.S. Is Not Going Back Into Lockdown Over Omicron

As omicron surges, the president urges everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2021 4:20 PM

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Biden Administration

Biden Rolls Out Industrial Policy Plan To Overcome Government-Created COVID-19 Testing Shortages

One government failure cascades into another.

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2021 6:07 PM

BaileyCovidTestStash | Ronald Bailey

FDA

Why the Hell Has the FDA Not Approved Cheap Rapid COVID-19 Self-Tests Yet?

If they're good enough for Europeans, surely they're good enough for Americans.

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2021 1:20 PM

ellumenew | Ellume Health

Coronavirus

Trump Administration Should Immediately Launch an Operation Warp Speed for COVID-19 Testing

It would be the best thing to do with the $22.4 billion Congress allocated for COVID-19 testing

Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2020 2:46 PM

Ellume | Ellume Health

Coronavirus

The FDA Finally Approves a Real At-Home COVID-19 Test

Way late, but better than never.

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2020 3:05 PM

TrumpMaskOffReuters | TOM BRENNER/REUTERS/Newscom

Coronavirus

'CASES, CASES, CASES … Cases are up because TESTING is way up,' Tweets the President

COVID-19 Cases are increasing faster than is testing, and that's not "fake news."

Ronald Bailey | 10.26.2020 5:10 PM

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Science

Rapid Home COVID-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They're Illegal.

Delivering rapid at-home testing kits to 330 million Americans is "something we can actually do at warp speed."

Ronald Bailey | 10.20.2020 6:00 AM

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Coronavirus

The FDA Has Been Way Too Slow on At-Home COVID-19 Testing

With antigen testing, the U.S. could have been well on its way toward crushing the pandemic by now.

Ronald Bailey | 8.4.2020 4:14 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Infections in U.S. Are About 10 Times Greater Than Reported Cases, Says Study

About 40 percent of infected persons show no symptoms but may still transmit disease.

Ronald Bailey | 7.22.2020 4:45 PM

COVIDRisingAntonBelousovDreamstime | Anton Belousov/Dreamstime

Coronavirus

Trump Is Wrong: Spreading Epidemic Is Responsible for Most of the Rise in COVID-19 Cases

Cases per 1,000 tests are rising in the majority of states.

Ronald Bailey | 7.21.2020 1:10 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Is About To Really Rev Up

Cheap, rapid antigen tests may be on the way—and the FDA has finally approved test pooling.

Ronald Bailey | 7.20.2020 4:00 PM

BDVeritor | Becton Dickinson

Coronavirus

To Get Americans Safely Back to Work and Play, We Need Cheap and Plentiful At-home COVID-19 Testing

Enable people to act responsibly toward their neighbors and co-workers.

Ronald Bailey | 7.6.2020 4:05 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Herd Immunity Is Much Closer Than Antibody Tests Suggest, Say 2 New Studies

If the findings are true, that's really great news.

Ronald Bailey | 7.1.2020 11:40 AM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Pool Testing Is a Stopgap Measure To Track and Curb the Pandemic

It could quickly amplify coronavirus testing by tenfold.

Ronald Bailey | 6.29.2020 3:20 PM

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Coronavirus

To Really Reopen the Economy, At-Home Diagnostic COVID-19 Tests Are Our Best Bet

Making cheap tests widely available would go a long way toward crushing the pandemic.

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2020 5:00 PM

STOPCOVIDTEST | Zhang et al.

Coronavirus

New CRISPR Coronavirus Test Could Be a Pandemic 'Game-Changer'

Cheap accurate testing would enable the safe reopening of the U.S. economy.

Ronald Bailey | 5.6.2020 3:00 PM

TrumpTestingBlueprintNewscom | Yuri Gripas/picture alliance / Consolidated/Newscom

Coronavirus

Trump's COVID-19 Testing Blueprint Is Another Attempt to Avoid Responsibility

Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.

Ronald Bailey | 4.28.2020 4:31 PM

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Coronavirus

A Harvard Plan To Use Massive COVID-19 Testing To Reopen the Economy

This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.

Ronald Bailey | 4.20.2020 4:05 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 'Immunity Passports' Could Be a Good Idea

Why not let recovered coronavirus patients out of lockdown?

Ronald Bailey | 4.2.2020 5:00 PM

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Coronavirus

FDA Tells At-Home Diagnostics Companies To Stop Coronavirus Test Roll-Outs

The companies are complying. Customers won't get their results and are being told to destroy their test kits.

Ronald Bailey | 3.25.2020 4:35 PM

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Coronavirus

Massive Coronavirus Testing Is the Way to Help Save the Economy

No time to waste; do it sooner rather than later.

Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2020 12:30 PM

EverlywellCovid19 | Everlywell

Coronavirus

FDA Should Get Out of the Way of At-Home COVID-19 Testing

Private-sector efforts to fill the testing vacuum run afoul of bureaucracy.

Ronald Bailey | 3.23.2020 1:05 PM

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Coronavirus

Our Best Weapon Against Coronavirus Is To Test Everybody

And it's not too late.

Ronald Bailey | 3.20.2020 4:55 PM

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Coronavirus

Donald Trump Declares 'We Will Ultimately and Expeditiously Defeat This Virus'

In two weeks we will know if his public health measures are too little, too late.

Ronald Bailey | 3.12.2020 11:30 AM

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Coronavirus

How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse

FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2020 11:25 AM

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Coronavirus

Did the Trump Administration Overpromise 1 Million COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests by the End of This Week?

The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2020 3:10 PM

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Donald Trump

The Myth of Donald Trump's Mental Illness

Don't medicalize political judgments.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2018 12:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Diagnosis

Much Hyped Theranos Diagnostics: Is It Vaporware?

Even worse, CEO Holmes evidently wants the FDA to regulate competing products

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2015 3:03 PM

Policy

How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic

The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Proctologists Despair: Researchers Devise a Potential Universal Cancer Test

Ronald Bailey | 7.30.2014 1:22 PM

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