by University of Cambridge Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainResearchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used a combination of an online psychiatric assessment and a blood test to diagnose patients with bipolar...
by The Hospital for Sick Children Credit: CC0 Public DomainResearchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and University Health Network (UHN) have demonstrated that by analyzing patients’ blood samples, they are able to detect cancer earlier in individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, an inherited condition with an almost 100%...
by American Heart Association blood testCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA simple blood test may predict the risk of progressive heart and kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, according to new research published in the journal Circulation. “High levels of certain biomarkers are indicators of heart and kidney complications and may help...
by Adam Piore, University of California, San Francisco Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Daniel Gibbs, M.D., enrolled in an Alzheimer’s study at UC San Francisco almost a decade ago, researchers needed access to a secure government facility just to confirm that he had the disease. They summoned Gibbs to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, hooked him...
by Columbia University Receiver Operator Curve Analyses of Plasma Biomarker Performance in Classifying Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)–Supported Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease Performance of plasma biomarkers amyloid-β 1-40 (Aβ40) (inverse), amyloid-β 1-42 (Aβ42) (inverse), total tau (T-tau), neurofilament light chain (NfL), phosphorylated tau181 (P-tau181), and ratios of Aβ40/Aβ42, T-tau/Aβ42, and P-tau181/Aβ42 in classifying CSF biomarker (P-tau181/Aβ42)–supported diagnosis of...
by Lund University Interictal and postictal immune protein levels in serum from patients with temporal and frontal lobe seizures and PNES. A-B, interictal IL-6 and ICAM-1 protein levels in patients with TLE, FLE, TLE + PNES, PNES, and controls (CTRL). C–H, interictal compared to postictal protein levels of IL-6, MIP1β, TARC, MDC, IFN-y, ICAM-1at 6–8 h and 24 h...
by Indiana University School of Medicine Discovery, prioritization, and validation of biomarkers for anxiety. A Cohorts used in study, depicting flow of discovery, prioritization, validation of biomarkers from each step and independent testing cohorts. B Discovery cohort longitudinal within-subject analysis. Phchp### is study ID for each subject. V# denotes visit number. Red are high anxiety...
Donavyn Coffey February 17, 2023 UPDATED February 23, 2023 // Editor’s note: The headline of this article was changed from “New Cancer Screen, Same Issues: Physicians Confront Galleri Test” to better reflect the content of the article. In January 2022, Anthony Arenz, a 51-year-old living in Mesa, Arizona, breathed a small sigh of relief. The Galleri blood test,...
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN September 11, 2022 Dr Deborah Schrag PARIS — New results from a large prospective trial give a better idea of how a blood test that can detect multiple cancers performs in a “real-life” setting. “As this technology develops, people must continue with their standard cancer screening, but this is a glimpse of what...
by University of East Anglia Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image Gallery Researchers at the University of East Anglia have helped develop a new blood test to detect prostate cancer with greater accuracy than current methods. New research shows that the Prostate Screening EpiSwitch (PSE) blood test is 94 percent accurate—beating the currently used prostate-specific...
