Health Discovery Corporation Offers an Intra-Quarterly Update, Commentary on the Value of Prostate Cancer Screening and Invites the American Cancer Society to Act Immediately.SAVANNAH Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , Ga. -- Due to the recent downward pressure on the price of Health Discovery Corporation's common stock (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : HDVY) after breaking through multiple 52-week highs in a few short weeks as it did in the past month, the Company has received numerous investor inquiries. Given these inquiries and in order to make Company information available on a uniform basis, the Company would like to provide an intra-quarterly update on its activities, to and including, but not limited to, the following since its most recent quarterly filing: * The Company's private placement Series B fund raising is going extremely well and the Company expects to close this round of financing in the next few weeks. These Series B shares are not common shares and are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We are pleased to announce that many of the participants in this Series B funding round are current shareholders of the Company. * The Company continues to make great progress on its urine-based prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. test. As previously announced, HDC (Hard Disk Controller) See disk controller. HDC - Disk Controller recently entered into royalty-bearing licenses for its new urine-based prostate cancer test with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DGX DGX Dogfishes (FAO fish species code) ) and Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff ) for development and commercialization. The Company also entered into royalty-bearing licenses for its tissue biopsy-based prostate cancer test with Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) and Clarient Inc. (NasdaqCM: CLRT CLRT Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy CLRT Command Logistics Review Team CLRT Cranial Laser Release Technique ) for development and commercialization. * The Company's minority-owned subsidiary, Smart Personalized Medicine, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , has recently entered into a licensing agreement with a world-renowned international cancer center to develop a breast cancer prognostic test and, with the Company, are currently in discussions with a national clinical laboratory for development and commercialization of the test. * The Company is finalizing the image processing development on its PAP Smear Pap smear or Papanicolaou smear Sample of cells from the vagina and cervix of the uterus for laboratory staining and examination to detect genital herpes and early-stage cancer, especially of the cervix. Developed by the Greek-born U.S. interpretation test. The Company entered into a development and commercialization agreement with DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L Laboratories for this test as well as tests for ovarian and endometrial cancer. * Discussions are underway with an international diagnostics company regarding the development and commercialization of the Company's colon cancer molecular diagnostic test. * Since the recent press release on the status of the Company's IP portfolio on October 19, 2009, the United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property has issued additional Notices of Allowance on two of HDC's patent applications covering the use of SVMs for analysis of spectral data. Spectral data are generated by instruments including mass spectrometers, which are widely used for detection of chemical properties of materials that can be analyzed based on their atomic or molecular weights, optical detectors, such as infrared telescopes and laser analyzers, audio signal analyzers, and medical testing systems, such as EEG EEG: see electroencephalography. and ECG ECG electrocardiogram. ECG abbr. 1. electrocardiogram 2. electrocardiograph ECG Also called an electrocardiogram, it records the electrical activity of the heart. analysis. Both patent applications cover the direct analysis of spectral data using SVMs, which represents a significant improvement over earlier methods that required identification and extraction of individual peaks in the spectra, which was frequently a manual operation, before any analysis could occur. "As a Company, we are focused on creating shareholder value and expect that from time to time shareholders will take some profits from their investment, especially when the company breaks through multiple 52-week highs in a few short weeks as we did in the past month," Dr. Barnhill said. "Additionally, we were proud to be recently listed by the Wall Street Journal Market Watch as a "Best Performing Stock" in the Biotechnology sector. "Over the past several months, the Company has taken prudent, definitive steps to strengthen its staffing, to bolster its investor relations/public relations capacity by hiring a New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. firm and to improve our capital structure," said Dr. Barnhill. "I am very excited by our progress and feel that there has never been a more promising time in the Company's history than now," said Dr. Barnhill. Prostate Cancer Screening Prostate cancer screening is an attempt to identify individuals with prostate cancer in a broad segment of the population—those for whom there is no reason to suspect prostate cancer. Remains Vitally Important There appears to be considerable confusion in the media regarding the American Cancer Society's position on the value of universal prostate cancer screening. The critical issue regarding the American Cancer Society's position on prostate cancer screening is not that screening, per se, is unwarranted but that the currently available PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. diagnostic test is inadequate for justifying mass screening for prostate cancer, and that a new, more accurate test is desperately needed. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , it is the test, not the testing, that is inadequate, wasteful, and in some cases, harmful, and given the availability of the "right" test, it would be unwise to abandon prostate cancer screening or even seriously consider doing so. U.S. & Global Market Opportunity for Health Discovery Corporation HDC receives, licensing and milestones fees as well as royalty payments on a per test basis upon the sale of patient tests, including HDC's prostate cancer tests. HDC's initial target market for prostate cancer is significant. For example, in the U.S. alone there are 25 million PSA tests (prostate specific antigen PSA (Prostate specific antigen) A tumor marker associated with prostate cancer. Mentioned in: Tumor Markers ) performed annually. There are an additional 25 million PSA tests performed annually outside the U.S. The PSA test sells in U.S. national clinical laboratories for approximately $100 per test. The PSA test has come under increasing scrutiny due to its known limitations. HDC, with its partners, expects to provide an alternative to the PSA test in the U.S. and globally. According to Dr. Barnhill, "The future for cancer screening is indeed bright." In fact, it would be impossible to accomplish the nation's best visions for healthcare-reform without vastly increasing the numbers of patients being screened and the frequency of their early-detection screenings--as well as increasing the use of companion diagnostic tests to screen for those patients who are likely to respond favorably to an expensive or dangerous therapy, such as chemotherapy. Health Discovery Corporations Invites the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, to Act Immediately Given the promising future of molecular diagnostic testing, and the increased accuracy of these tests, Health Discovery Corporation asks that the American Cancer Society immediately and strongly reassert its position that, at least, in the case of prostate cancer screening, the availability of a new and vastly superior screening diagnostic tool could be of immense public health benefit. If we focus on the science, as well as the economics, because, as it turns out both are in alignment here, we will jointly get to the right place after all, a place where the benefits of prostate cancer screening using a new, very powerful test far outweigh the risks and other costs. About Health Discovery Corporation Health Discovery Corporation is a molecular diagnostics company that uses advanced mathematical techniques to analyze large amounts of data to uncover patterns that might otherwise be undetectable. It operates primarily in the emerging field of personalized medicine where such tools are critical to scientific discovery. Its primary business consists of licensing its intellectual property and developing its own product line of biomarker-based diagnostic tests that include human genes and genetic variations, as well as gene, protein, and metabolic expression differences and image analysis in digital pathology and radiology. For more information, see www.healthdiscoverycorp.com. Forward-Looking Statements This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, the accuracy of which is necessarily subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, statements regarding future performance, opportunities and investments, and anticipated results in general. From time to time the Company may make other forward-looking statements relating to other matters, including without limitation, commercialization plans and strategic partnerships. Actual results may differ materially due to a variety of factors, including, among other things, the acceptance of our approach to applying mathematics computer science and physics into the disciplines of biology, organic chemistry and medicine and our products and technologies associated with those approaches, the ability to develop or commercialize new drugs, therapies or other products based on our approaches, and other factors set forth from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. All forward-looking statements and cautionary statements included in this document are made as of the date hereof based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or cautionary statement. |
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