Patient Advocacy Groups Pressure US Lawmakers To Pass VALID Act For Diagnostics Regulation

The Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act is the “most comprehensive reform effort to date” for diagnostic tests, a group of 18 patient advocacy organizations has told Congress.

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Calling it the “most comprehensive reform effort to date” for diagnostics, a group of patient advocacy organizations has banded together to urge the US Congress to pass the latest version of the Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act.

The legislation, reintroduced on 24 June by Sens. Richard Burr, R-NC, and Michael Bennet, D-CO, and Reps. Diana DeGette, D-CO, and Larry Bucshon, R-IN, would establish a new regulatory category...

It’s the third time the VALID act has been introduced in Congress; it failed to go anywhere in 2018 and 2020. (Also see "If At First You Don’t Succeed:...

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