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In response to the Trump administration increasing its tariffs on imports from China, Beijing announced a ban on gene sequencers from US biotech firm Illumina, signaling a full-blown trade war could be in the making. Trump also pushed the deadline for implementing tariffs on Canada and Mexico back by another month.
ACLA wants policymakers to see the vital role clinical labs play in delivering better health outcomes for patients and improving public health, especially in their potential for catching diseases early.
An attorney representing the ACLA in its lawsuit to stop the US FDA’s final rule on LDTs emerged from a lengthy hearing on the case feeling ‘cautiously optimistic’ and said a decision could come before May.
Most fired staffers in the FDA’s device center are now back at work, according to several who were unceremoniously let go over the President’s Day weekend purge.
A lead reviewer at the US FDA’s device center is back on the job after being caught up in the purge that hit the agency over Presidents Day weekend. Before learning that his termination had been rescinded, he told Medtech Insight he was indebted to the US for the opportunities the country had given to him.
The exact number of layoffs at the FDA as part of the Trump Administration’s pledge to shrink the federal government is unclear, but the most came from the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.