Day: October 20, 2016

Earlier this month, actor Ben Stiller announced that he was free of prostate cancer thanks to a routine PSA test he got. His essay encouraged all men to get PSA tests. However, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a voluntary non-profit that makes recommendation for screening tests, does not recommend PSA tests due to very high false positive … Read more

Last month’s approval of Sarepta’s drug for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) by FDA shook the regulated industry due to the extremely arbitrary nature of the FDA decision. The review of the summary basis of approval, which lists the data FDA relied on to approve this drug, would not help. So, should all developers of products for … Read more