On March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule, in which FDA attempted to assert regulatory authority over ...
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg recently announced that her agency would soon end a long-standing policy of enforcement discretion toward a classification of ...
Lab-developed tests (LDTs) are laboratory tests where blood is drawn and placed in a test tube to help with identification, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, conditions, and infections. Examples ...
Many doctors and laboratories don't have the resources to comply with the Food and Drug Administration’s final rule on the regulation of laboratory developed tests and will likely scale back the ...
A federal judge in Texas ruled that the FDA overstepped its authority when it issued its Final Rule: Medical Devices; Laboratory Developed Tests in May of last year, which said laboratory-developed ...
The Food and Drug Administration aims next year to toughen up regulations on the lab-developed testing industry, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal. Here are three things to know about ...
A federal judge in Texas has blocked the FDA’s plans to bring laboratory-developed tests under the same regulations it uses to oversee other in vitro diagnostics and medical devices—saying the agency ...
Folks with cancer that has gene variants or rare diseases often need laboratory-developed tests for information that could guide their treatment when commercial tests don’t exist or aren’t precise ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday that it plans to reverse a decades-old policy and begin regulating Lab-developed Tests (LDTs) more similarly to in vitro diagnostic devices ...