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Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s disease, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. a global innovation driven healthcare company announced that it has entered into an agreement with CVS Caremark®, a CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) company to add ZituvioTM , ZituvimetTM and ZituvimetTM XR (Sitagliptin | Sitagliptin and Metformin Hydrochloride) tablets to its template formulary.

CVS Caremark will add Zydus’ ZituvioTM and combination products to its template formulary starting January 1, 2025.

UC Riverside scientists have developed a nanopore-based tool that could help diagnose illnesses much faster and with greater precision than current tests allow, by capturing signals from individual molecules.

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc announced that Bristol Myers Squibb received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Opdivo Qvantig™ (nivolumab and hyaluronidase-nvhy) co-formulated with Halozyme's ENHANZE® drug delivery technology for subcutaneous use in most previously approved adult, solid tumor intravenous (IV) Opdivo® indications as monotherapy, monotherapy maintenance following completion of Opdivo plus Yervoy® (ipilimumab) combination therapy, or in combination with chemotherapy or cabozantinib.

The scan method has enabled the team, led by researchers at Newcastle University, UK, to see how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and patients who have received a lung transplant.