Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News

The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

There is evidence that a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital in the UK and it appears that some of them acquired the illness while in hospital.

Health officials announced Friday afternoon that four patients at Duke Medical Center have shown signs of an antiviral-resistance to the H1N1 influenza strain.

Health experts have assured consumers that Chinese pork is still safe despite reports of pigs being infected with the deadly A/H1N1 flu.

A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 flu at Duke University Medical Center has raised concerns that changes in the virus may make severe infections more difficult to treat.

More than one million antiviral doses have been drawn from the federal stockpile in recent months, and the number of prescriptions filled by Canadian retail drugstores for Tamiflu and Relenza, the ... As public health officials urge more rapid use of antivirals for H1N1, some experts worry the drugs could become over-prescribed for what is a ...

The purpose of this article is to encourage the American people to read information on drugs they are being prescribed -- especially prescribed to their children -- and to read, read, read ingredients contained on labels -- especially what is being ingested by children.

The H1N1 flu, better known as the swine flu, is officially a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization .

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services says three of four people in North Carolina who tested positive for a type of the H1N1 flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu have died.

British health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu.

However, it stressed that the mutation did not appear to cause a more contagious or more dangerous form of A influenza and that some similar cases observed elsewhere had been mild.

Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients.

The daily H1N1 question Who should get Tamiflu? Andre Picard for The Globe and Mail Come back daily for answers to your questions from AndrA© Picard, the Globe's public health reporter, on the H1N1 virus.

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company, announced today that it has expanded its Phase 2 clinical study of a proprietary investigational triple-combination antiviral drug therapy for influenza to include centers in the United States, Canada and Europe.

November 18, 2009 Canada: Daughter says dad's H1N1 death unreported Via CBCnews.ca: Daughter says dad's H1N1 death unreported .

Yes, swine flu is widespread -- and college campuses are particularly vulnerable to the virus known as H1N1.

According to an antiviral expert at Laval University, doctors should be careful about to whom they prescribe Tamiflu, an antiviral drug that slows the spread of influenza.

Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday.

Scam artists swung into action just as the first cases of swine flu emerged last spring, public health experts say, offering hundreds of products for sale online, many at Internet pharmacies based overseas.

DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Oseltamivir is an oral medication used for treating and preventing the " flu ." It is similar to zanamivir .