I was beginning to wonder if I would ever see any major medical advances in my lifetime, due to the lack of any trend in this area lately.

• Designing Ecstacy (MDMA) to reduce the psychoactive effect and increase the cancer fighting potential:
  http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/23/could-a-form-of-ecstasy-fight-cancer/
• MIT’s DRACO antiviral drug could prove to be a cure for HIV, AIDS, and the common cold:
  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html
• More information on DRACO:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral)