
FDA Overregulation of Lab Tests Could Harm Patients
Requiring FDA approval for laboratory-developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients
J. Wesley Boyd is the director of education in the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he is a lecturer in the department of global health and social medicine. He is also a professor of medical ethics and psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. His areas of interest include social justice, access to care, human rights, asylum and immigration, humanistic aspects of medicine, physician health and well-being, and substance use. He earned an M.A. in philosophy, a Ph.D. in religion, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in medical ethics at HMS.

FDA Overregulation of Lab Tests Could Harm Patients
Requiring FDA approval for laboratory-developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients