It's OK To Let People Take Risks for Medical Science
A recent study finds that human challenge trials are largely safe.
Clinical trials
I Gave Myself Severe Diarrhea for Science. Don't Tax Me for It.
Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy.
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.
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.
Masks Not Very Effective at Protecting Wearers, Says New Danish Study
But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus.
COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Race Rushes Toward the Finish Line
Safe and effective vaccines by the end of this year?
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.
The Lancet's Hydroxychloroquine Study Is Retracted by Its Authors
The observational dataset on which it was based could not be properly audited.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Antiviral Is Reportedly Effective in Treating Severe Cases of COVID-19
STAT reports leaked comments of University of Chicago researcher
Hydroxychloroquine Trial for Treating COVID-19 Disappoints
"The best available evidence does not support the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19."
Deliberately Infect Healthy Young People To Test Coronavirus Vaccines, Propose Bioethicists
An idea that could really speed up vaccine development
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.
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.
Trump and How to Speed Up FDA Regulatory Approvals
Slashing the restraints on the agency's slow and burdensome process.
Broken Science
What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?
Should Terminal Patients Be Allowed to Try Experimental Drugs?
"Right to try" laws offer hope for people trying to save their own lives.
