A bill moving through the Tennessee legislature would require insurance companies to cover biomarker testing, a screening that can detect early signs of disease.

At the Tennessee Capitol, patients, advocates and families came prepared on Tuesday afternoon to tell lawmakers something ...

However, definitive diagnosis evaded him, "We didn't go out and get a PET scan or a spinal tap, which would actually reveal if you actually have the plaques, because those tests were not covered by my ...

Roughly 62,500 people in the state of Mississippi are living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Almost all of us have been touched by cancer at some point in our lives. If we haven’t had it, chances are we know a loved one or a friend who has. When someone dies from cancer, families go through ...

In 2022, Arizona was one of the first states in the nation to pass legislation (House Bill 2144) requiring Medicaid and commercial insurance plans to cover qualified biomarker tes ...

Use of numares’ metabolite constellation showed a stable urinary metabolic profile in the first 14 days for living donor recipients, enabling ...

New research suggests that an existing blood test may help to determine when someone is likely to develop Alzheimer's disease ...

A new blood test detected early-stage pancreatic cancer with 87.5% accuracy in a study of 672 people. A new blood test that ...

Precision medicine relies on biomarker testing to match therapies to specific cancers, yet many patients remain untested due to standardization issues. Recommendations include educating clinicians, ...

Biomarker testing helps doctors create personalized cancer treatments with fewer side effects. Many health insurers deny coverage for this testing, calling it "experimental." Lack of insurance ...

QUT researchers have developed a simple one-hour saliva test for a protein biomarker that has been linked with oral, colon ...