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Theranos was able to market its tests without FDA approval because of a loophole that allows lab-developed tests to be used and advertised. These tests have a lower level of oversight.
Social media posts claim "electromagnetism" from MRI scans can be dangerous for recently-vaccinated people.
This year’s event marked the largest indoor campus gathering since COVID began, and students were urged to do their part to keep everyone safe.
As the gradual repopulation of the BU campus begins this week, the University is doing a pilot test of a new way to keep a close eye on the incidence of COVID-19 in the BU community, pooled testing.
Twitter Facebook As BU scrambled to build a COVID-19 testing lab from the ground up last spring, its scientific director, Catherine Klapperich, tapped trusted help for an endeavor fraught with unknown safety risk: her former student and current colleague Lena Landaverde (ENG’13,’17), assistant director of the College of Engineering’s Precision Diagnostics Center. “Since May 2020, Lena has been my equal partner” in the Charles River Campus Clinical Testing Laboratory, wrote Klapperich, an ENG professor and vice chair of biomedical engineering. “She is my hands in the lab and ...