WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two rival flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, work equally well to fight the symptoms of influenza in children, Japanese researchers reported on Thursday.
Some pharmacies have run out of the swine flu drug, in part because of precautionary purchases by people who are not sick.
LONDON (Reuters) - Children should not routinely be treated with flu drugs like Tamiflu since there is no clear evidence they prevent complications and the medicines may do more harm ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs -- not just Roche's Tamiflu -- to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts ...
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Five other compounds known to experimentally ... stronger bonding affinity than current anti-flu drugs now available, including Tamiflu ...
... Reuters) - Bacterial pneumonia may have killed most people during the 1918 flu pandemic, and antibiotics may be as crucial as flu drugs to fight any new pandemic, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- University of Texas and Rutgers researchers have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight bird flu and other influenza strains.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- The drug-resistance of the widely circulating type A H1N1 flu virus highlights the need for new flu drugs and faster tests, U.S. researchers said.
Shares of GlaxoSmithKline and Roche rose amid expectations that the swine flu scare would lift demand for their products.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials are advising pregnant women to take prescription flu medicines if they are diagnosed with the new swine flu....
... , says health secretaryThe
policy of containing swine flu outbreaks will have to be abandoned
soon in favour of a more targeted use of anti-viral drugs, the
health secretary told the Commons today. ...
Hong Kong on Friday detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu, the main anti-viral flu drug, the health department reported on its website.
SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian pharmaceutical company will begin trials Wednesday of its experimental swine flu vaccine....
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials say all children at summer camp shouldn't be given the flu drug Tamiflu to prevent the virus....
(AP) -- U.S. health officials say all children at summer camp shouldn't be given the flu drug Tamiflu to prevent the virus.
