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Health Discovery Corporation Files for U.S. and Foreign Patent Protection of New Prostate Cancer Biomarker Discovery



    Health Discovery Corporation ("HDC") (OTCBB: HDVY) announced today
    that it has filed new patent applications in the United States Patent
    and Trademark Office and in the U.S. Receiving Office for the Patent
    Cooperation Treaty for U.S. and foreign patent protection for a newly
    discovered Prostate Cancer Biomarker Expression Signature which is
    highly accurate for identifying prostate cancer. This new Prostate
    Cancer Biomarker Expression Signature was demonstrated to have a very
    high degree of accuracy as demonstrated by an area under the ROC curve
    of 94%.

    "This new and exciting biomarker discovery could play a
    significant role in a more accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer as
    well as providing important information for the development of new
    drug targets for the successful treatment of prostate cancer,"
    commented Dr. Herbert A. Fritsche, Professor of Laboratory Medicine at
    the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Chairman of
    HDC's Science Team. "As medicine becomes increasingly personalized,
    discoveries of this nature could facilitate the development of new
    diagnostic tests and innovative treatments for prostate cancer."

    Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., Chairman & CEO of HDC, said, "I firmly
    believe that this new Prostate Cancer Biomarker Discovery provides a
    significant opportunity towards providing a more accurate diagnosis of
    prostate cancer and important new information for identifying new
    therapeutic targets in treating this potentially devastating type of
    cancer. This is especially important since The World Health
    Organization (WHO) estimates that prostate cancer in men is expected
    to go up 40% worldwide in the next 25 years. HDC is eager to work with
    both diagnostic and pharmaceutical partners on developing prospective
    commercial applications for this important new discovery."

    In addition, HDC has previously identified and reported additional
    Expression Signatures of biomarkers that are capable of distinguishing
    high-grade prostate cancers (Gleason Grade 4 and higher) from less
    malignant grades. More than 1 million men a year undergo biopsies of
    the prostate gland after the widely used cancer-screening test reveals
    moderately elevated levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the
    blood. Only one in four of these biopsies find evidence of cancer,
    meaning that around 750,000 of those million plus biopsies were
    unnecessary. The ability to clearly distinguish between different
    cancer grades by accurately identifying biomarker expression
    signatures in tissue, blood, urine or semen, could reduce the number
    of unneeded biopsies while quickly identifying those men in urgent
    need of more aggressive treatment.

    According to a recent paper published in the Journal of Urology by
    Dr. Tom Stamey at Stanford University Medical Center, a world-renowned
    expert on prostate cancer, and a Member of the HDC Science Team "The
    Era of PSA is over" because of the low accuracy rate of Prostate
    Specific Antigen in identifying clinically significant prostate
    cancer. Dr. Stamey believes that a new more accurate test is needed to
    effectively detect this type of cancer. PSA sales are estimated at
    over $350 million annually and represent 40% of all annual cancer
    serum biomarker revenues.

    HDC has recently signed licensing agreements with Pfizer (NYSE:
    PFE), Epigenomics (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: ECX) and Bruker
    Daltonics (NASDAQ: BRKR).

    Savannah-based Health Discovery Corporation (OTCBB: HDVY) is
    uniquely positioned in the field of pattern recognition. Through its
    broad patent portfolio and the efforts of its recognized scientific
    team, HDC is focused on commercializing its intellectual property in
    genomic and proteomic biomarker discovery, medical imaging,
    diagnostics, and pharmaceutical advancements in personalized medicine.
    The company's patent-protected technology also has significant
    application in non-medical fields that require manipulation and
    analysis of large, complex datasets such as insurance, financial
    markets, Internet search & spam, and homeland security.

    This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
    meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Acts of 1933 and Section 21E
    of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes
    that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are
    reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove
    correct.