Biomarkers in Medical News

DiaGenic to Provide MCI Biomarkers for Merz Pharmaceuticals

OSLO, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DiaGenic ASA (OSL: DIAG) today announced that it has signed an option agreement with Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, an innovative developer of drugs for treatment of illnesses in neurology and psychiatry, to gain access to biomarkers for Mild Cognitive Impai...

Novel biomarkers in heart failure

Several new biomarkers have been recently described in Heart Failure (HF) syndrome either in stable chronic patients as in the settings of acute decompensation. Biomarkers are used to diagnose disease risk, to predict outcome and to tailor treatment to individuals. Speaking at a press conferenc...

Interleukin Genetics to Chair Expert Panel Discussion on Use of Biomarkers in Drug Development at BIO Convention

Senior Experts from Nordic Bioscience, Biomarker Strategies and Pharma on Panel WALTHAM, Mass., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ILI ) announced today that CEO Lewis H. Bender will moderate and co-present a panel discussion titled "Integrating Geneti...

Vitamin D Linked to HDL Cholesterol - Shaklee Corporation Research Links Vitamin D with Key Biomarkers for Metabolic Syndrome and Heart Disease

PLEASANTON, Calif., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Research supported by Shaklee Corporation, the number one natural nutrition company in the U.S., shows that a lower blood vitamin D level is associated with metabolic syndrome and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The study results are cu...

Potential lung disease biomarkers yield clues to COX-2 inhibitor side effects

NEW YORK (April 29, 2009) -- In searching for a simple way to identify individuals with smoking-related lung injury, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have stumbled upon a potential explanation for why the class of pain-relievers known as COX-2 inhibitors increases the risk of heart prob...

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Toscana Biomarkers' Outstanding Contributions to the R&D of Novel Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Diseases

LONDON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the autoimmune disease diagnostics markets, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Toscana Biomarkers with the 2008 European Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Research Award. The company demonstrated that the incorporation of synthetically ...

Thomson Reuters White Paper Explores the Role of Biomarkers in Clinical Trials and Drug Development

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Reuters today announced that it has published a new white paper on the topic of biomarkers drawing on expert insight from academics and key players in the pharmaceuticals industry. Called "Biomarkers: An Indispensable Addition to ...

Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. and Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. Announce the Formation of GlycoMark, Inc., a Joint Venture to Develop and Commercialize Novel Biomarkers for Diabetes

GlycoMark(R) Blood Test Now Established to Provide Physicians with Vital Information Missed by Hemoglobin A1c Test to More Effectively Manage Patients with Diabetes NEW YORK and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (New York, NY) and...

Elevated biomarkers predict risk for prostate cancer recurrence

PHILADELPHIA A simple blood test screening for a panel of biomarkers can accurately predict whether a patient who has had prostate cancer surgery will have a recurrence or spread of the disease. Calling their findings a major step forward in prostate cancer care, Texas researchers report in t...

Pancreatic Cancer Biomarkers Found

Blood test for 5 proteins could detect disease sooner, when it's more treatable FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Five proteins linked to early development of pancreatic cancer have been identified by U.S. researchers, who said the finding is a step forward in efforts to develop a bl...

New Thomson Reuters Biomarkers Report Shines a Light on Revolutionary New Area of Drug Development

Biomarkers to Open the Door to Personalized Medicine and Represents a Seismic Shift for the Pharma Industry PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a new biomarkers report, "Establishi...

UCLA researchers discover biomarkers that predict lung cancer patient response to therapy

Researchers at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered biomarkers that predict which patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer will respond to a combination treatment of the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex and the growth factor receptor blocker Tarceva. The findings, published in t...

Proteomic profiling shown more accurate than traditional biomarkers in identifying liver cancer

BOSTON As the incidence of liver cancer continues to grow-- fueled in large part, by rising rates of hepatitis C infections so too does the need for tests to help diagnose the disease at an earlier stage. A study appearing in the January 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research demonstrates that a...

New developments in biomarkers for epithelial ovarian cancer

AMSTERDAM, November 29th 2007 With the genomic revolution radical improvement has been made in methods of detection of ovarian cancer. This is of the utmost importance, since the chances of successful treatment are strongly enhanced with early detection. In a special issue of Disease Markers, pub...

Study makes progress in zoning in on biomarkers for better colon cancer treatment

Barcelona, Spain: New research has yielded a clearer picture of which biomarkers could help doctors more precisely target the treatment of colon cancer, bringing closer the day when patients who will not benefit from chemotherapy are spared it, while those that will, get the more aggressive treatm...

Penn School of Medicine receives $2.3 million to study biomarkers of cigarette smoke exposure

PHILADELPHIA -- The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has been awarded $2.3 million over the next four years to study biological indicators of exposure to cigarette smoke. The grant is part of the National Institutes of Hea...

BioTech Firm Decodes Current Swine Flu BioMarkers

Sound Health, a small non-profit Ohio Biotech firm, has confirmed that they have decoded Frequency Equivalents™ for the proteins, genes and activators associated with the currently reported Swine Flu outbreak. Albany, Ohio (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 -- In response to the...

Cordex Pharma to Collaborate with BG Medicine in a Clinical Study of Heart Failure Biomarkers

LA JOLLA, Calif., April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cordex Pharma, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CDXP) announced today that it has agreed to collaborate with BG Medicine (BGM) in its Phase 2 clinical safety trial with CDP-1050 in heart failure patients. In this collaboration, BGM will measure l...

PreMD Files Provisional Patent Application Describing a New Method of Quantifying Cancer Biomarkers

- May help avoid incorrect Breast Cancer diagnosis and management TORONTO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Predictive medicine company PreMD Inc. (TSX: PMD; PREMF.pk) today announced that it has filed a provisional patent application that describes a new simplified method of quantifyin...

JDRF and Lilly partner to fund research to identify beta cell biomarkers

NEW YORK, NY November 14, 2007 The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Eli Lilly and Company announced today that they are joining together to create a $3 million research effort to accelerate the pace of research into drugs and therapies to cure diabetes and its complications by developin...

New Genetic Biomarkers Could Predict Coronary Heart Disease

New genetic markers may be able to predict whether a person is likely to have coronary heart disease (CAD) in the future//. Research carried out by Dr. M. Balasubramanyam and Dr.V.Mohan at the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (India) shows that people who are pre-diabetic or who have Type 2 diab...

Probable Biomarkers for Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Genetic alterations have been found to be to be associated with the development of skin cancers related to smoking//. These cancers; squamous cell carcinomas(SCC), are seen in the head and neck area. Charis Eng of the Genomic Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and colle...

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers With Potential to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

Expression of two different proteins taken from primary tumor biopsies is highly associated with spread of breast cancer to nearby lymph nodes, according to researchers who// say this protein profile could help identify at an early stage those patients whose disease is likely to metastasize. ...

Researchers Find Mix of Biomarkers Predicting Mortality

Previous research has uncovered a range of biological markers that can predict disability, morbidity and mortality in older adults. In this study, the researchers// analyzed 13 biomarkers representing neuroendocrine and vascular functions and immune and metabolic activity over 12 years in 1,189 hig...

Many Opt for Surgery to Lower Breast, Ovarian Cancer Risk

...ter their genetic test, but some took seven years to make the decision, according to the report published in the Aug. 1 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention . More information The American Association for Clinical Chemistry has more about BRCA1 and BRCA2 tests . ...

Many Texas Docs Not Pushing HPV Vaccine for Girls

... Center, said in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research. The findings appear in the Aug. 1 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention , and Kahn believes the results could be representative of doctors across the United States. The national HPV vaccine rates for 11- t...

Living in U.S. May Raise Hispanics' Cancer Risk

...nd. The report is published in the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention . The study took place in Florida, home to about 2.7 mi...r surveillance, American Cancer Society; August 2009 Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention ...

Sex Hormone Protein May Predict Type 2 Diabetes

...levels of SHBG were a significant predictor for the risk of development of type 2 diabetes, the researchers found. "To our knowledge, there are few biomarkers for type 2 diabetes prediction that have presented both genetic and plasma phenotypic evidence like ours," Liu said. The report was published in th...

A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

...gy and Biotechnology is able to quickly and precisely detect pathogens and pollution in the environment - and infinitesimally small amounts of disease biomarkers in our blood. About the size of a stick of gum, the new invention may be applied to a wide range of environments and situations. The aim is for the de...

Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute Announces Diagnostic Screening and Clinical Research Collaborations With Response Genetics, Inc.

...ients," said Steven Young, president and COO of ALCMI. "Coupled with the routine determination of a panel of documented, clinically-significant biomarkers by Response Genetics, the ALCMI CASTLE Network will help lead the way as the Lung Cancer research community's premier, open access source for high qua...

Biomarker Could Predict Severe Osteoarthritis

...o establish a laboratory biomarker for the risk of severe osteoarthritis, according to background information in a news release from the journal. Such biomarkers can lead to early diagnosis of the disease, before clinical symptoms appear. Improved prediction of severe osteoarthritis, experts say, could help ide...

Growth in Personalized Medicine to Drive Alliances Between Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical Industries, According to PricewaterhouseCoopers

...sonalized medicine by introducing formal requirements to test for certain biomarkers prior to prescribing certain drugs. Legislation intr... program," added McDougall. "These companies understand the contribution of biomarkers and diagnostics in improving the design and probability of success of clini...

Protein level may serve as predictor of severe osteoarthritis

...mediates the interaction of chondrocytes with immune cells, VCAM-1 may also contribute to immune-mediated cartilage damage. Establishing laboratory biomarkers of severe OA is important for a number of reasons. The standard risk factors of age and weight are not enough for accurate risk prediction, and since ...

Nanoparticle-delivered 'Suicide' Genes Slowed Ovarian Tumor Growth

...ajor peer-reviewed journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention; and Cancer Prevention Research. The AACR also publishes CR, a magazine for cancer survivors and their families, patient advocates, p...

HPV Infection May Be Linked to Poor Head and Neck Cancer Survival Rates in African Americans

...ajor peer-reviewed journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & Prevention; and Cancer Prevention Research. The AACR also publishes CR, a magazine for cancer survivors and their families, patient advocates, p...

GeneGo Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Pharmacogenomics Software Suite

..., MetaCore 5.4( TM ), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug 5.4( TM ) is designed for prediction of human metabolism, toxicity and biological effe...

SNM's Clinical Trials Network expands European membership of PET biomarker manufacturers

... drug discovery through the integration of imaging biomarkers into multi-center clinical trials. According to...eive multicenter IND status for additional imaging biomarkers over time. Each imaging site that participates in ...s will have the option to purchase investigational biomarkers from a commercial manufacturer with a drug master ...

New Diagnostic Biomarker Test Shows Promise in Monitoring Ovarian Cancer

... estimating EOC risk in women presenting with pelvic masses. The HE4 test was developed through research efforts aimed at identifying combinations of biomarkers to add sensitivity to the CA125 test, which is limited in its sensitivity and specificity, as well as its ability to monitor early stage epithelial ov...

Roche Cardiac 200 Offers Rapid Cardiac Diagnostics for the Point of Care

... doyia.turner@roche.com (1) Christenson R. The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome and heart failure. 2007. (2) Lee-Lewandrowski E, Januzzi J, Greene S, Tannous B, Wu A, Smith A, Wong A, Murkami MA...

Biomarkers May Predict Alzheimer's

...attsson's team studied the accuracy of using three biomarkers found in spinal fluid in predicting Alzheimer's diseases. The biomarkers are beta-amyloid1-42 (Aβ42), total tau protei...e 181 (P-tau). The researchers tested for these biomarkers in 750 people with mild cognitive impairment, 529 ...