FDA Regulation to Support the Next Wave in Diagnostics

In February of last year the FDA hosted a two-day workshop focused on technical and regulatory considerations related to the use of next generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostics in clinical practice.  This was a very forward-thinking move on the part of FDA, as...

Lawsuit a Catalyst for LDT Regulation Progress?

We have written extensively about health system regulation in this blog, with a keen interest in how LDT regulation will shake out.  In our other blog we’ve even argued strongly for caution in LDT regulation, primarily to avoid stifling innovation.  However, our...

Biomarker Panels Explode in LDTs

In this blog we have regularly assumed (without hard data until now) that most biomarker innovation was taking place in laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as opposed to tests cleared and approved by FDA, and we can now confirm that this assumption is correct. Now that...