On August 22, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) issued a draft guidance entitled, Predetermined Change Control Plans for Medical Devices. The draft guidance describes how FDA plans to implement new...more
8/26/2024
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On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in the Federal Register the issuance of a draft guidance entitled “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) has issued draft guidance, Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials, that applies to sponsors of clinical trials of investigational drugs, biologics, and...more
Under Section 3213 of Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) is required to establish the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Designation Program, an initiative intended...more
On September 29, 2023, the Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) published the long-awaited proposed rule on laboratory developed tests (“LDT Proposed Rule”). The proposed rule is open for public comment through...more
10/3/2023
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On December 16, 2022, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or “Agency”) published an important and noteworthy draft guidance document entitled “Circumstances that Constitute Delaying, Denying, Limiting, or Refusing a...more
12/20/2022
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During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a series of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) and guidance...more
In late December 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency operating within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued two documents—a Proposed Rule and a Draft Guidance—intended to establish two...more
1/7/2020
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On August 16, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) announced (by tweet!) that it was issuing a draft...more
Following its recent announcement that it would not finalize its 2014 draft guidance on laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a Discussion Paper on Laboratory Developed...more