The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has approved a new rule requiring stores selling tobacco products to post health-warning signs. The signs, which are expected to be up by December, will feature images of blackened lungs as well as information on how to quit.
For the first time, an experimental AIDS vaccine has prevented infection with the virus. The research was conducted in Thailand where a small number of the more than 16,000 subjects were protected against infection. Researchers say that number is too low to declare the vaccine a complete success.
As the fall flu season gets underway, medical experts warn parents to be extra careful when measuring and administering their children’s doses of Tamiflu.