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On March 31, 2025, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas struck down a 2024 Final Rule (the "Final Rule") by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") that exerted jurisdiction over the regulation of laboratory-developed...more
In our May 2024 Healthcare Alert, we discussed a final rule published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amending its regulations to include in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs), even those manufactured in a...more
In another rebuke to federal regulatory overreach, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) has vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2024 final rule that sought to bring...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) final rule on March 31, 2025, under which the FDA would have started regulating most laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)...more
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 laboratory-developed...more
This year, we have seen several monumental events that already are, or potentially could be, pivotal to the future of the Laboratory Developed Test (“LDT”) industry – first, the issuance of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration...more
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
Pharmacogenetics, although in its infancy, has the potential to help predict how individual patients will respond to a given drug. Pharmacogenetics (or pharmacogenomics) is the study of "how genes affect a person's response...more