Chart of the Week: Test Approval – Experience Counts

The most experienced test developers get their tests through the process of FDA approval or clearance 70 days faster on average and 90 days faster on median. The first quartile (bottom of box) Third quartile (top of box) The median (horizontal line within box) The...

FDA Finally Provides Better Evidence of LDT Risks

For a long time now I have been pushing FDA to provide evidence to back up its claim that LDTs have introduced risk to patient populations. That evidence has now been provided, and it is compelling. FDA has just published a case for LDT regulation based on 20 case...

Upcoming Congressional Hearing on Lab Test Regulation

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce is holding a hearing entitled “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations” on November 17 at 2pm ET (note that the date was re-scheduled from an earlier date)....

Why Personalized Medicine Matters

President Obama is pushing the term “Precision Medicine.” I was already pretty comfortable with the existing name for the movement, “Personalized Medicine,” but for a brief time bought into using the President’s term instead. Precision Medicine does...