Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 194: Workforce Development for the Life Sciences Industry with David Stefanich of Rymedi
Changes in FDA, Cannabis Policies and AI Developments
Episode 185: America’s Bioeconomy with Sarah Glaven, White House Research Biologist
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 181: South Carolina’s Life Sciences Economy with Ashely Teasdel, Deputy Secretary of SC Department of Commerce
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 169: Shirley Paddock, Senior VP of Clinical Development, Syneos Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 166 — Christine Vannais, COO of Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 165: Doug Edgeton, President and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Podcast: Direct Access Laboratory Testing - Future FDA Proposed Regulations on LDTs - Diagnosing Health Care
Episode 150 - Jane Pine Wood, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, BioReference
Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
A court has struck down the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to extend its regulatory authority to clinical laboratory testing services. On March 31, 2025, in the consolidated cases American Clinical Laboratory...more
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
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
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
On April 29, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a Final Rule amending regulations to make explicit that in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs) are devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act...more
Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device Team analyzes the practical considerations for adhering to the Food and Drug Administration’s final rule for laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)....more
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
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
On April 29, 2024, after years of false starts trying to expand oversight of laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) through administrative and legislative actions, FDA announced the much-anticipated—and highly...more
After years of FDA discussion and failed congressional efforts to assert greater oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs), FDA has proposed a rule that would require many LDTs to comply with FDA’s requirements for in...more
On September 29, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a long-awaited proposed rule on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). If FDA finalizes this rule as proposed, FDA will regulate virtually all LDTs as...more
On August 19, 2020, the Trump administration made a major announcement that marks the latest development in the ever-evolving saga of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) oversight of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)....more
What happened? On August 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a single paragraph statement rescinding U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) guidance documents concerning premarket...more
Laboratory Developed Tests and Their Regulation - Laboratory developed tests (LDTs) are in vitro diagnostic tests (IVDs) that are designed, developed, manufactured, and performed within a single laboratory. Although the...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
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to expand the capacity to provide COVID-19 testing in the United States. In the Policy for Diagnostic Tests for Coronavirus Disease-2019 during the Public Health Emergency...more
The FDA may begin certifying the laboratories that produce lab-developed tests (“LDTs”) instead of drafting regulatory rules to cover the tests themselves....more
While a new U.S. Food & Drug Administration discussion paper neither serves as legal guidance nor effects any immediate policy changes, its issuance does suggest that the FDA may take a less stringent approach to regulating...more
Last Tuesday, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, announced at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health that...more
Laboratory developed test (LDT) providers, previously exempt from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, under a new FDA proposal, must now consider if their LDTs constitute moderate-risk (Class II) or high-risk...more
Historically, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has exercised enforcement discretion with respect to most laboratory developed tests (LDTs) and has not required laboratories that furnish LDTs to comply with FDA’s...more
Advances in medical technology have increased the use of diagnostic tests to guide therapeutic decisions for many diseases and conditions, especially in the context of personalized medicine. Citing the need to ensure that...more