Folks with cancer that has gene variants or rare diseases often need laboratory-developed tests for information that could guide their treatment when commercial tests don’t exist or aren’t precise ...

A federal judge in Texas has blocked the FDA’s plans to bring laboratory-developed tests under the same regulations it uses to oversee other in vitro diagnostics and medical devices—saying the agency ...

When the deadline to appeal the court decision that blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s final rule regulating laboratory developed tests as medical devices slipped by in May without a word from ...

Laboratories are just beginning to assess the magnitude of operational changes needed to comply with a new federal rule expanding regulatory oversight of lab developed tests (LDTs). In a major shift, ...

Stable isotope-labeled internal standards are widely used in laboratory-developed clinical mass spectrometry tests. An equal amount of these internal standards is added to all samples in a batch, ...

As the new Congress and a new administration start up, the fate of FDA-issued regulations on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) is one of many issues that health advocates and lobbyists will be ...

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the FDA overstepped its authority when it issued its Final Rule: Medical Devices; Laboratory Developed Tests in May of last year, which said laboratory-developed ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Laboratory Developed Test to Help Transplant Patients Receive the Right Dose of Critical Anti-Rejection Medication Sooner TacroType™ Pharmacogenetic ...