On Dec. 30, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final order exempting dozens of Class I and Class II medical devices that previously required 510(k) submission from 510(k) premarket review
Distribution of diagnostics and devices without premarket approval has featured prominently on the FDA’s enforcement priority list this year. The agency has issued seven warning letters related to premarket approval in 2019 after issuing just one such warning letter in all of 2018.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recommends that men age 55 to 65 consider prostate cancer screening. The reason it doesn’t directly recommend testing for all men in this age group is that current screening methods that rely on detecting high levels of
Typically, in vitro diagnostic (IVDs) tests used in investigational cancer drug trials require two submissions: one for the IVD test and another for the drug. But on Oct. 9, the FDA issued final guidance allowing companies to submit for simultaneous review for the clinical trial.
From - Laboratory Industry Report
A notable FDA Section 510(k) approval was granted before the close of 2016 for Foundation Medicine's FoundationFocus CDxBRCA, a next-generation sequencing-based companion diagnostic test…