People look forward to it each week. An inhalant drug, zanamivir, reduces the duration of flu from 7 to 4 days, The New England Journal of Medicine reports. It goes directly to the respiratory tract and stops the flu virus from infecting other cells. The new drugs probably won't be available until next year. There's something in soybeans important phytoestrogens that seem to protect against endometrial and other cancers, a Hawaiian study suggests.
More testing is due.
Unlike pills, the patch delivers a constant dose of painkiller over 72 hours.