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WHO data confirms low level of resistance to Tamiflu

New data published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed a low frequency of resistance to Tamiflu (oseltamivir) over 3 influenza seasons (2003 ?2006)1. The information, published by the Neuraminidase Inhibitor Susceptibility Network in the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record, has shown that resistance of around 0.3% to oseltamivir was seen during the influenza seasons...

Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

Treatment with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and prophylaxis for people exposed to infected patients could be one of the most cost-effective strategies for reducing illness and death during an influenza pandemic. According to modelling research presented by Beate Sander, University of Toronto, Canada, a stockpile of Tamiflu sufficient to cover 65% of a country’s population could cut...
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Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better Handled By Combining It With Probenecid

Drug Synergism refers to the enhancement in action or effect of a particular drug than the individual effect of both the drugs combined. The phenomenon could be exploited in the present scenario where the avian bird flu is posing a serious threat across different regions of the globe. // Tamiflu is a prescribed drug for seasonal flu, because it will be a first line of defense if the H...

India To Procure 1 Million Doses Of Tamiflu

India is planning to procure at least a million doses of Tamiflu, the antiviral avian flu drug, in the event of an outbreak of bird influenza in the country, a central minister said Wednesday//....

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

The safety of Tamiflu, the anti-flu drug, has been questioned for the second time in a week following reports that it has been linked to the deaths of 12 children in Japan // . The drug is being stockpiled by governments around the world preparing for a threatened flu pandemic, but American drug regulators are to review its status today. European regulators said on Monday they...

US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths

There is no evidence of a link between Tamiflu and the sudden deaths of 12 children in Japan who took the drug, The US Food and Drug Administration has concluded. Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant which markets the // drug standing in the front line of defense against a bird flu pandemic, agreed to work on changing the drug's labeling to warn of potential dermatological side-effects,...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche confirmed that it is in talks with 15 companies in the U.S. about stepping up the production of Tamiflu, the bird-flu drug//. The partnership would dramatically increase the world's supply of Tamiflu as countries are stockpiling the drug in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic. The Basel-based firm confirmed on Thursday that it was...

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New Data from the US and Japan Support: No Established Causal Link Between Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Treatment with Tamiflu US Databases Indicate Psychiatric Symptoms Lower in Influenza Patients Taking Tamiflu Versus Those Not Taking Tamiflu

BASEL, Switzerland, March 20, 2007 -- Clinical studies haveshown (1) similar rates of neurologic and psychiatric events inpediatric influenza patients being treated with Tamiflu compared tothose receiving no treatment for their influenza. Furthermore,recent data derived from US health insurance records (2) between1999-2006 of over 101,000 influenza patients treated with Tamifluand over 2...
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