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LDT Rule Vacated: FDA Backs Down, but Uncertainty Remains

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In December 2024, we published an alert highlighting the FDA’s final rule on Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) and the compliance countdown to May 2025. The rule, issued in May 2024, sought to phase out the agency’s...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

DOJ Targets Gender‑Affirming Care under FDCA and FCA: Scrutinizes Off‑Label Drug Use and False Diagnosis Codes

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Last month, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued its “Civil Division Enforcement Priorities” memorandum, memorializing a shift from its predecessor administration’s policy on gender‑affirming healthcare...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Off Shortage List; Deadlines to Stop Compounding

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Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, a class of medications known as GLP-1s, have grown in popularity, initially for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and more recently for obesity and other labeled and off-label indications for...more

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FDA’s Backup LDT Enforcement Method: Specimen Collection Kits

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We have written at length about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) actions to promulgate regulations specifying the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices and to phase...more

IR Global

9th Circuit Finds That Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) Procedures Constitute Treatments As Drugs

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In United States v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc.[1], the FDA brought a lawsuit against doctors who create and administer a stem cell mixture called stromal vascular fraction (SVF), alleging violations of the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FDA Issues Long-Awaited Proposed Rule To Regulate Laboratory-Developed Tests

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On September 29, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule that would end its long-standing policy of enforcement discretion with respect to regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) (the...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

The Clock is Ticking: Comments to Proposed Federal Rules For Wholesalers and 3PLs are Due June 6th and Here’s What We Think

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On February 4, 2022, the FDA released its long-awaited proposed national standards for the licensure of third party logistics providers (3PLs) and wholesale drug distributors. The draft rules were years over-due and the delay...more

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Tell Me, I’ve Got to Know: FDA Issues Draft Guidance on 506J Notifications for Medical Devices

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Bob Dylan sang, “Tell Me, I’ve Got to Know.” In January 2022, the Food and Drug Administration said the same to the medical device industry when it issued a draft guidance, “Notifying the FDA of a Permanent Discontinuance or...more

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