Disclosed are methods for treating pain and tracking response to treatment. Also disclosed are methods for determining pain, including predicting future medical care facility visits for pain.

The invention provides methods for determining the mutation burden of a tumor by assaying tumor DNA that is representative of genetic loci that are themselves representative of genetics of the tumor. The assayed tumor DNA may be itself agnostic as to loci, so long as it is representative of loci that are representative of tumor mutation burden. The invention provides for assays in which the tumor DNA being sequenced or tested can be something other than, and possibly less than, a full panel of oncogenes that is expected to stand for a tumor's mutational load.

Provided herein are methods for assessing risk of infection or cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a subject with an inflammatory disease, e.g., rheumatoid arthritis. The methods include performing immunoassays to generate scores based on quantitative data for expression of biomarkers relating to inflammatory biomarkers with or without additional clinical variables to assess infection and CVD risk. Also provided are uses of inflammatory biomarkers for guiding treatment decisions.

The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for detecting a target cell using a compound comprising a targeting moiety, a linker, and a NIR-II dye.

A method of predicting a risk of a recurrence after treatment of a patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) is provided. The method includes measuring a concentration of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 from a sample isolated from a patient, and detecting a presence of a genetic variation at rs10033464 on chromosome 4q25 from nucleic acid separated from the sample.

The invention provides a method of detecting a subject suffering from, or at risk of suffering from, bladder cancer the method comprising i) providing a body fluid sample isolated from a subject; ii) isolating cells from said sample to provide a cell sample; iii) contacting the sample with a specific binding member capable of binding to a minichromosome maintenance (MCM) polypeptide(s); iv) determining the binding of said specific binding member to the cell sample; v) counting those cells in said cell sample which bound to said specific binding member to provide a cell count; vi) determining, based on the cell count, whether the subject has, or is at risk of having, bladder cancer.

The invention features diagnostic and therapeutic methods and compositions featuring androgen receptor variant proteins and nucleic acid molecules whose expression is increased in androgen related diseases or disorders.

A method of characterizing melanoma in a subject involves determining the presence or level of one or more biomarkers in a sample obtained from a sentenal lymph node (SLN) of a subject.

Methods and compositions are provided for the non-invasive diagnosis of likelihood of HIV remission after antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption, prediction of time-to-viral-rebound in an HIV subject after ART interruption and prediction of the probability of viral rebound in an HIV subject after ART interruption. Methods for treating HIV subjects by increasing or decreasing expression of certain metabolites or glycans are also provided.

The present invention provides a method for the prognosis of overall survival, cancer recurrence or response to treatment for a patient suffering from cancer, the method comprising: (a) examining a sample from the patient to determine whether the patient is human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive or negative; and (b) measuring WW domain-binding protein 2 (WBP2) levels in the patient's sample, wherein a result in step (a) and a result in step (b) provides a prognosis of overall survival, cancer recurrence or response to treatment for the patient. The present invention also provides a kit carrying out the method of the present invention.