Distribution of free antibiotics during this terrible winter, by the super stores to the customer short of money has become a practice. This raises the high concern of the health and medical authorities to look into the matter seriously as the overuse of these free antibiotics may result in drug resistance bugs and many other health concerns.

Most of the stores are doing it as a marketing strategy to attract more and more customer to shop at their stores and get free antibiotics on prescription. They buy the drugs at very low prices and give away to their customer as if they are well wishers and want to save the money of their customers.

The health officials are strongly against the antibiotics giving away to cure cold and flu because these are found ineffective for this purpose. On the other hand the stores argue this by saying that they are giving these antibiotics to their customers free of cost to help out them in this economic gloom and they do it on doctor’s prescription.

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 Iomai Corporation strives to discover and develop vaccines and immune system stimulants which could be administered through a novel, needle-free technology called ‘Transcutaneous Immunization (TCI)’.It tried to establish that a single dose of pandemic influenza vaccine may meet the protection level. FDA recommends a pandemic vaccine which can achieve immune response levels considered protective in 70 percent or more of vaccine recipients.

It has recently announced its positive interim results of the trial among 500 subjects with the use of its immunostimulant adjuvant patch with an injected vaccine for H5N1 influenza.

The trial demonstrated a significant influence of lomai patch when it was used with a single dose of the 45-microgram H5N1 vaccine. It proved that this combination was sufficient to provide an immune response considered protective in 73 percent of those tested. This could be counted as a statistically significant improvement over those who received the H5N1 Influenza vaccine alone.

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