Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services amid many resignations at federal health agencies and cancellations of NIH and NCAB meetings. All of this happened at a time when the Trump administration is reportedly preparing to fire thousands of HHS workers.
A federal judge ruled that the FDA lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests, finding squarely in favor of plaintiffs in the consolidated lawsuits brought by American Clinical Laboratories Association, Association for Molecular Pathology, and others. ASCP submitted an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs.
