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 [...]
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.
