FDA Warns About Weight Loss Products

FDA Warns of Risky Weight Loss Pills

The Food and Drug Administration warned yesterday that more than 25 weight-loss products contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients that may jeopardize the health of consumers.

Malaria vaccine may be available in 2012

Results from two phase II trials in Africa show that a new malaria vaccine is effective at preventing both infection and the mosquito-borne disease itself in infants and children.more.

AIDS Vaccine Possible Within 5 Years

Nobel medicine laureate sees progress on AIDS vaccine:

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Luc Montagnier, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Saturday stood by his view that a “therapeutic vaccine” for the AIDS pandemic could be created within four to five years.

“It is difficult to say, but it is perhaps a case of four to five years,” he told AFP, following a press conference in Stockholm ahead of receiving the prestigious prize next week.

In October Montagnier, 76, said an AIDS treatment could be possible in the future with a “therapeutic” rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming.

Four asthma drugs raise concern

Two federal drug officials have concluded that asthma sufferers risk death if they continue to use four hugely popular asthma drugs — Advair, Symbicort, Serevent and Foradil. But the officials’ views are not universally shared within the government.

Generic Heart Drugs as Good as Brand-Name: Study

Brand-name drugs used to treat cardiovascular disease are no better than generics, a new review of available evidence shows.

Drug Traffickers and Death Penalty

INDONESIA on Thursday executed two Nigerians convicted of smuggling illegal drugs to mark the United Nations’ anti-drugs day, officials said.

Samuel Okoye, 37, and Hansen Nwaolisa, 40, were arrested at Jakarta’s international airport in 2001, each allegedly carrying more than three kilogrammes of heroin. They have been held at a high-security prison on Nusakambangan island since their conviction.[...]