OraSure Technologies is first (with the exception of an outdated, complicated test sold by Abbott) to get coveted FDA approval for a rapid HIV diagnostic test, and it also won a hard-to-get CLIA waiver for the test after a one-day review by the Department of Health and Human Services; the waiver enables the test to be used in a much wider variety of non-laboratory settings. The company's opportunity looks huge, but the test's success is far from a sure bet.

While endocrine-disrupting evidence was inconclusive, the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety recommends more conservative limits on use of homosalate, octocrylene and benzophenone-3 in cosmetic products compared with current requirements under the European Cosmetics Product Regulation.

The risk of inadvertently growing SARS-CoV-2 virus in cell and gene therapies and possibly infecting patients and workers should be assessed and mitigated, the agency advises.