FDA is seeking myriad new authorities from Congress to help with future pandemic preparedness, but missing from the agency’s request is a key diagnostics reform bill that top FDA officials had previously heralded as a top legislative priority. Elizabeth Hillebrenner, associate director for scientific and regulatory programs at FDA’s device center, said earlier this month that FDA would like Congress to include the bill, the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act, in the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards...