Biomarker

A partnership between a clinical diagnostics company and a clinical manufacturing firm aims to support therapeutic development, clinical trials, reimbursement and routine clinical adoption for a range of neurodegenerative diseases.

A finger prick test measured blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and has potential to increase accessibility of testing, according to research at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.

Utilization of blood tests to detect Alzheimer’s pathology may boost diagnostic accuracy and treatment in a primary care setting, according to research presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.

A draft proposal for new Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic criteria incorporates blood-based biomarkers, whose utility, relatively low cost and performance have made them a promising new tool in AD detection.

Blood eosinophil counts, serum IgE and fractional exhaled nitric oxide may be used to classify patients with T2-high or uncontrolled asthma, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Healio spoke with Nancy U. Lin, MD, about metastatic breast cancer, touching on approvals, agents in the pipeline, surveillance, survivorship and other topics impacting clinicians and patients.

WASHINGTON — Airway sphingolipids were detected in small volumes of nasal fluid taken from children with asthma, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Investigators proposed a way to classify subgroups of patients with AKI using plasma and urine biomarkers, according to research published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

WASHINGTON — Fractional exhaled nitric oxide represents a noninvasive marker of airway inflammation with good longitudinal fidelity among patients with severe asthma, according to data presented here.

NEW ORLEANS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO, discusses his research on using OCT to develop a biomarker for detecting diabetic retinopathy.