Health News Archive - December 20, 2005

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - One acre of genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate the entire U.S. population safely and inexpensively, a molecular biologist at the University of Central Florida said on Tuesday.

CHICAGO _ By the end of the decade, consumers should have another prescription-strength option to treating heartburn that won't burn a hole in their wallets. TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.