Biomerica Announces Direct-to-Consumer Availability of inFoods® IBS Test, Targeting Relief for Bloating and Gastrointestinal Pain

• Patients experiencing bloating and gastrointestinal discomfort can now order inFoods^® IBS directly from www.infoodsIBS.com without needing to visit a doctor’s office
• With a simple, at-home finger-prick blood sample, patients can receive a personalized test result identifying potential IBS trigger foods
• The inFoods^® IBS test empowers patients with actionable results to reduce bloating and gastrointestinal pain
  

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biomerica, Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRA), a leading global provider of advanced medical diagnostics, is excited to announce a major enhancement to its inFoods^® IBS platform. US consumers can now seamlessly order the inFoods^® IBS test directly from infoodsibs.com and consequently collect a sample in the comfort of their home. As part of this ordering process, a licensed physician remotely authorizes the test, ensuring professional medical oversight, without the need for visiting a doctor’s office.

A New Era in IBS Treatment with At-Home Convenience.
The InFoods IBS test provides a breakthrough tool for individuals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) who seek to manage symptoms such as bloating and gastrointestinal pain. The inFoods^® IBS test offers a personalized and non-invasive solution, helping patients to manage their condition naturally by identifying foods that may trigger their symptoms. Now, patients can access the inFoods IBS test from the comfort of their home with physician oversight, offering a more convenient pathway to health management helping IBS patients to regain control of their life.

The inFoods^® IBS test is a groundbreaking advancement in the personalized treatment of IBS. Unlike IBS treatments that rely on medications to reduce symptoms, inFoods^® IBS identifies specific foods that may trigger the patient´s symptoms allowing for tailored dietary changes that can reduce both bloating and gastrointestinal pain, encouraging patients to manage their condition naturally by avoiding the problematic foods identified by the inFoods IBS test. The test uses a patented technology to detect personal food sensitivities, helping patients achieve significant symptom relief by removing those trigger foods from their diet.

A recent double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical study—conducted at prestigious institutions including Mayo Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital), the University of Michigan, and Houston Methodist Hospital—demonstrated that the inFoods^® IBS test significantly improved key IBS symptoms, such as Abdominal Pain Intensity (API) and bloating. Patients in the treatment group experienced significant symptom improvements but without the side effects commonly associated with drug therapies.

IBS: A Widespread Condition with High Economic Impact.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects 1 in 20 Americans, according to the American College of Gastroenterology, contributing to an estimated $10 billion in annual direct medical costs. Despite the high prevalence and economic burden, many individuals still struggle to find effective treatments due to the complex nature of the disorder.

Biomerica’s InFoods^® IBS platform offers new hope for millions of IBS sufferers by providing a tailored approach to treatment that addresses the root causes of their symptoms. To learn more or to seamlessly order the test with physician oversight, visit inFoodsIBS.com.

About Biomerica (NASDAQ: BMRA)
Biomerica, Inc. (www.biomerica.com) is a global biomedical technology company that develops, patents, manufactures and markets advanced diagnostic and therapeutic products used at the point-of-care (in home and in physicians' offices) and in hospital/clinical laboratories for detection and/or treatment of medical conditions and diseases. The Company's products are designed to enhance the health and well-being of people, while reducing total healthcare costs. Biomerica primarily focuses on gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases where the Company has multiple diagnostic and therapeutic products in development.

About inFoods^®
The inFoods IBS test is designed to assess a patient’s above normal immunoreactivity to specific foods utilizing a simple finger-stick blood sample. Instead of difficult to manage broad dietary restrictions, physicians can now use the inFoods IBS information to make targeted, patient-specific recommendations about trigger foods that, when removed from the diet, may alleviate IBS symptoms such as pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. The inFoods IBS test and clinical outcomes were studied at several prominent centers including Mayo Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. - a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, and the University of Michigan. The clinical results for improvement in the Abdominal Pain Intensity (API) responder endpoint of >30% reduction in pain, for IBS patients in the treatment diet arm was greater than patients in the placebo diet arm (p-value of 0.0246). The improvement for patients in the treatment arm versus the placebo arm is considered clinically significant and for certain endpoints is similar and, in some cases, better than the current drugs in the market. Further information about Biomerica’s patented inFoods^® Technology Platform can be found at www.biomerica.com

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