Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News

Vietnam has had only two H5N1 influenza patients in the last two years and both of them are dead.

The case was a 26 year-old pregnant female from Soc Trang province. She developed symptoms on 23 January 2012, and was admitted to hospital on 25 January.

To the Editor: In the Netherlands, the outbreak of pandemic influenza A 2009 led to a 100-fold increase from 2008 in prescriptions for the antiviral neuraminidase inhibitor oseltamivir .

Juggling three part-time jobs, caring for her small grandchildren and walking dog Simba every day, she prided herself on her good health and active lifestyle.

NanoViricides, Inc. announced today that it has submitted a pre-IND briefing document to the US FDA.

The Internet has made it possible for consumers to buy just about any- thing from the comforts of home.

Researchers in the Netherlands and in Wisconsin have created new strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus that for the first time can be transmitted through the air.

Countries around the world spent billions of public dollars to stockpile the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu but new research suggests there is no hard and fast proof that it works.

With flu fatalities continuing to climb, Taiwan's disease control authorities urged people yesterday to take precautions against the current flu outbreak that is expected to reach its peak during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Over the past three years, Ontario has spent $26 million stockpiling Tamiflu to treat people in the event of a pandemic.

Esomeprazole. Trastuzumab. Where do drugs get those odd-sounding generic names? The answers are in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News , the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, which explains the logic behind the tongue-twisters. C&EN Associate Editor Carmen Drahl explains that ... (more)

Countries around the world spent billions of public dollars to stockpile the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu but new research suggests there is no hard and fast proof that it works.

Incomplete availability of data has hampered a thorough assessment of the evidence for using the anti-influenza drug oseltamivir, a Cochrane Review has found.

Health officials are to face questions about whether they prescribed Tamiflu on a mass scale too quickly in the wake of the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Common winter illnesses can have similar symptoms. And one illness can easily lead to another one as the body struggles to fight off the first one.

However, we believe that the formulation named in the article is somewhat misleading.

The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A virus.