Trial shows an AIDS gel can protect women
A trial of women in South Africa shows that a gel made using Gilead Sciences Inc’s HIV drug tenofovir lowered the rate of HIV infections in women by 39 percent over two and a half years. It is the first trial to show a microbicide might protect women from the deadly and incurable virus, which... [Read More]
Testosterone gel linked to heart problems
The Massachusetts study, reported online by the New England Journal of Medicine, was halted after six months because the men using a hormone gel were developing so many heart, breathing and skin problems compared to patients applying a placebo gel to their shoulders or upper arms every day. “I... [Read More]