COVID Laboratory Testing Investigations
On April 29, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a final rule to consider laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) to be medical devices and thus under FDA oversight. LDTs are laboratory tests that are designed,...more
In mid-March, the US Food and Drug Administration announced via press release an “unprecedented policy” to increase testing capacity for COVID-19 in the United States. As part of its Policy for Diagnostic Tests for...more
U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced legislation that would place laboratory developed testing procedures within the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) process and assess the availability and utilization of...more