A large-scale clinical trial combining two popular lung cancer drugs Tarceva and Avastin has showed no increase in survival rates.

However, the combination treatment kept the disease from progressing for a longer period than Tarceva alone, the study found. Tarceva is marketed by Genentech and Avastin by Roche. Roche Holding AG sells both drugs in Europe

Three European scientists have shared the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine.

Two French scientists Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, of the Institut Pasteur, discovered the AIDS virus. They won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns (US$1.4-million) for discovering the deadly virus

Two French savants and a German scientist are this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine awardees.

Frenchmen Luc Montagnier, the director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, from the Institut Pasteur were recognized Monday for their discovery of the fatal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, which had killed million of people. For their valuable scientific contribution, the two were awarded half of the $1.39 billion (800,000 pound) prize money

More than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years from lung disease, a new study confirms. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health say the deaths would be attributed to smoking habits and the common practice of burning coal and wood for cooking and heating.

The study, which is published online on Saturday by the British journal The Lancet looked at a 30-year period, spanning the last five and the next 25. More than half of Chinese men population smoke and more than 70 percent of Chinese households use solid fuels that are a major source of indoor air pollution, the study says

Potentially harmful cosmetic-related chemicals have been found in cosmetics and body care products used on a daily basis, according to a study by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental group.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) tests and detected 16 chemicals in blood and urine samples from 20 teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 19 that they say could be linked to health risks such as cancer and hormone disruption