Has the fast-tracked test undergone sufficient peer review?
The case was fast-tracked for trial due to the severity of groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson's cancer.
But the youngster has found himself fast-tracked into the Test arena.
GPs are already able to request X-rays, blood tests and some scans, but now they will be able to get fast-tracked endoscopy investigations and MRI or CT brain scans tests that a specialist might order after referral of a patient but which will now bring a faster result.
High-risk human papillomavirus test-positive women will be fast-tracked to colposcopy, replacing usual practice of cytological surveillance at six monthly intervals.
This and other vaccine trials were fast-tracked with enormous international effort as researchers raced to be able to test potential therapies and vaccines while the virus was still circulating.
In other developments, fast-tracked clinical trials of Ebola treatments were announced today, which will see experimental drugs tested on Ebola patients in West Africa for the first time.
As these drugs are being "fast-tracked" through the FDA, they remain experimental, and the troops become in fact, guinea pigs for the human testing phase of the vaccines.
Within the past week, AstraZeneca has released a string of positive test results and pushed three drugs through to late stage trials, including a lung cancer medicine fast-tracked to final stage trials.
Fast-tracked to TISSEC (Declined).
Fast-tracked to Transactions on Networking.
