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Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19

22.12.2022

Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers for decades. Covid-19 made things worse. The early signs and symptoms of sepsis mimic those …

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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: Another Theranos crime: Loss of trust in real-time diagnostics

08.12.2022

Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients about the company’s technology. Elizabeth Holmes, his …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Congress needs to update FDA’s ability to regulate diagnostic tests, cosmetics

05.12.2022

Congress is considering two measures that modernize tools the Food and Drug Administration uses to oversee two areas of its vast portfolio: diagnostic tests and cosmetics. While the stakes are …

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First Opinion / Health

Opinion: Better lab test standards can ensure precision medicine is truly precise

30.11.2022

Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, overall cancer death rates have continued to decline …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Congress should not compel Medicare to pay for liquid biopsies

07.09.2022

When the two Republican senators from Mississippi cosponsor legislation with the two Democratic senators from California, something intriguing must be going on. In fact, there appears to be an outbreak …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: PCR testing can help clarify confusion over Covid-19 rebound and isolation

10.08.2022

President Biden’s recent case of Covid-19, its rebound, and his extended isolation offers an opportunity to consider how more precise interpretation of viral load via PCR testing might be used …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: It’s time to move past Aduhelm and focus on a broader Alzheimer’s drug pipeline

07.06.2022

When Alzheimer’s disease was believed to be caused solely by the accumulation of amyloid protein in the brain, pinning all hopes on an amyloid-targeting drug like Aduhelm — the first …

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Health

‘Testing bottleneck’ for monkeypox puts hope of containment at risk, experts warn

07.06.2022

Infectious disease specialists are growing increasingly concerned by the U.S. strategy for testing for monkeypox, warning that it’s creating a bottleneck and squandering the limited time the country may have …

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Health

On the lookout for monkeypox, CDC considers expanding test capacity

27.05.2022

With the United States on the lookout for more monkeypox cases, federal health officials this week said they’re considering expanding testing networks, even as they’ve stressed the current two-step process …

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