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Science Group Sues FDA Over New Laboratory-Developed Test Rule

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On August 19, 2024, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) sued the FDA to challenge a new rule that allows the FDA to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs). The rule, which became effective on July 5, 2024,...more

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FDA Issues Final Rule on Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests

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After many years of anticipation and various congressional and agency proposals, on May 6, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its final rule titled "Medical Devices; Laboratory Developed Tests." The final rule...more

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Lawsuit Filed Challenging FDA Final Rule Regulating Laboratory Developed Tests

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On May 29, 2024, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s final rule concerning the regulatory status of laboratory developed tests...more

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Summary of LDT Rule: An In-depth Look at the Final Rule Regarding Laboratory-Developed Tests

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a Final Rule on May 6, 2024 (89 FR 37286), that will, over the next four years, radically alter the landscape for laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) and "correct...more

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Will FDA's LDT Final Rule Bring "Balance to the (IVD) Force"?

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a Final Rule on May 6, 2024 (89 FR 37286) that will, over the next four years, radically alter the landscape for laboratory developed tests (LDTs). This action...more

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FDA Finalizes Rule and Sets Course to Phase In Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests

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On May 6, 2024, following more than a decade of discourse with interested stakeholders on potential approaches to regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its...more

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FDA Publishes Final Rule on Regulation of Lab-Developed Tests

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On May 6, 2024 the FDA published its much-anticipated Final Rule on Lab-Developed Tests (“LDTs”) to make explicit that in vitro diagnostic products (“IVDs”) are devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FD&C...more

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FDA's Final Rule on Laboratory Developed Tests Comes with Controversy and Concerns

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent announcement of a final rule extending regulatory oversight to laboratory developed tests (LDTs) has sparked controversy. As discussed in a previous Holland & Knight alert,...more

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FDA Finalizes Rule to Assert Authority Over Laboratory Developed Tests

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On April 29, 2024, FDA finalized the long-awaited rule to assert authority over the regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) under FDA’s existing regulatory framework for medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug,...more

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FDA Issues Much-Anticipated Final Rule on Laboratory Developed Tests

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule on April 29, 2024, that significantly changes the regulatory framework for laboratory developed tests (LDTs). LDTs are in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs) that...more

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FDA Announces Final Regulation Governing Laboratory Developed Tests

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) announced on April 29, 2024, in a forthcoming and long-awaited final rule that laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be regulated as medical devices....more

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LDT Final Rule: Shifting the LDT Battlefield

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On April 29, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or “the Agency”) released a pre-publication version of the highly anticipated laboratory developed test final rule (“LDT Final Rule”). The LDT Final Rule is...more

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In Search of Harmonization: FDA Finalizes Device CGMP Regulation Harmonization with ISO 13485:2016

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On February 2, 2024, FDA finalized its nearly two-year-long process to harmonize QS regulations with ISO standards. As we mentioned when FDA proposed the harmonization in 2022, this update represents the first update to the...more

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Dechert Re:Torts - Key Developments in Product Liability and Mass Torts - Issue 10

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Senators Focus Attention on Litigation Funding’s Opacity - Building on the momentum we previously noted related to litigation funding, on September 14, Senator John Kennedy introduced the Protecting Our Courts from Foreign...more

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FDA’s Final Rule on Intended Use: ‘Getting Right Back to Where We Started From’

On August 2, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its final rule amending the intended use regulations codified at 21 CFR 801.4 and 21 CFR 201.128, marking the end of an effort FDA began in 2015. While the...more

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After a long and winding road, FDA finalizes much-debated “intended use” rule

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On August 2, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule to amend its “intended use” regulations, codified at 21 CFR § 801.4 for medical devices and 21 CFR § 201.128 for drugs. This updated final...more

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2021 Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring FAQs: CMS Issues Final Rule

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On December 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote patient monitoring aka remote physiologic monitoring or “RPM,” reimbursed under the Medicare program. The...more

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CDRH issues final rule on appeals, excluding De Novos from 517A

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On 2 July 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule finalizing the category of "517A decisions," previously termed "significant decisions," as well as two accompanying guidance documents related to...more

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"FDA Publications Double Down on Agency’s Ability to Prohibit Off-Label Communications, but Narrow Scope of Debate"

On the eve of a change in administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) released a flurry of documents regarding off-label communications and FDA’s ability to regulate such communications within...more

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HHS Issues Final Rule that Expands the Requirements for Disclosure of Clinical Trial Data to ClinicalTrials.gov

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On September 21, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule that greatly expands the information that sponsors of “applicable drug clinical trials” and “applicable device clinical trials”...more

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FDA Issues Final Rule on Use of Symbols in Labeling

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The Food and Drug Administration published a Final Rule in the Federal Register revising labeling regulations for medical devices and certain biological products to allow for the use of symbols without adjacent explanatory...more

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FDA Issues Final Ruling Allowing Medical Device Manufacturers to Use Stand-Alone Symbols on Labels

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This week, on June 14, 2016, the FDA issued a final ruling revising its medical device and certain biological product labeling regulations to allow, for the first time, manufacturers to use graphical representations of...more

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