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

 
• By Shawn M. Schmitt

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,...

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