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State-Regulated Illinois Health Plans Subject to Biomarker Test Coverage Mandate Starting 2022
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The law requires state employee, Medicaid, public school, and small employer plans to cover evidence-based biomarker testing, a change that will readily impact cancer patients.
The platform detected clinically relevant concentrations of zinc, a biomarker for a nutritional deficiency that kills 100,000 children under the age of 5 worldwide each year.
The researchers said that their deep-learning interpreter of outcomes for patients with gliomas could be more accurate and objective than pathologists.
The firm's transplant allograft status test identifies genetic biomarkers that predict the likelihood of a patient's immune system to reject the organ over time.
Prostate Cancer Grades Can Be Distinguished Using MicroRNA Signature, Study Finds
Researchers from Northwestern University uncovered five circulating microRNAs that differentiate patients with very high- and low-risk prostate cancer.