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FDA to review first of 3 new weight loss drugs

Dieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant weight loss without risky side effects.

You Aren't Eating Enough Bugs

Americans aren't eating enough insects, and that bugs foodies like Andrew Zimmern.

Research shows injured brain's ability to rewire itself

Researchers in Tasmania have uncovered new evidence of the human brain's capacity to 'rewire' itself following injury.

Antibody find spurs fresh hopes for AIDS vaccine

Researchers in the United States have identified two powerful antibodies that are strong enough to neutralise more than 90 per cent of all known HIV strains.

Traditions like smoking are not worth defending

Smoking ban - fight on 'graffiti' (brainless smearing on walls) and dog's do do on sidewalks - enforcement is a matter of will-power. Right!

Homeopathy targeted in debate on German health care spending

Homeopathy is healing with virtually nothing. The British NHS wants to stop spending money on 'purified water' - so do German health experts.

Top Mississippi marine official says ban on fishing not due to health hazards and oil spill hyped by media

BILOXI — The state's top marine official says once BP's oil stops flowing things will be cleaned up in three to six months, that Mississippi's fish are "big, fat and happy" and that shrimp would be safe to eat now — the ban on catching them is based on bureaucracy,  …

FDA review spotlights heart risk of diabetes pill

WASHINGTON – Federal health scientists have panned a GlaxoSmithKline study that the company used to defend the safety of its embattled diabetes drug Avandia, a once blockbuster-seller that has fallen out of favor because of potential ties to heart attacks. The Food and Drug Ad …

AIDS Vaccine: What Promise Do HIV Antibodies Hold?

In the continuing search for the Achilles heel of HIV, researchers may finally be enjoying some success.

Health Care Law Rollout Continues: Checks to Seniors, Patients' Bill of Rights, Healthcare.gov

The White House is continuing to roll out different pieces of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, mostly on or ahead of schedule. Here's what has been done in the last two weeks:

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