Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
# 4083 Last Friday we learned of two hospitals – one in North Carolina ,and one in Cardiff, Wales – that reported small clusters of Tamiflu resistant H1N1 infections among their patients. Further investigation has turned up a 6th case in the Wales hospital, and there may yet be another. While these reports are concerning, and of scientific interest, it is import to remember that for now...
CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From Canada.com: 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 relatively mild illness in most people. 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 frontline...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
ChinaBio Today submits: GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK ) will begin manufacturing its treatment for flu, Relenza, in China to supply China’s domestic market. GSK received approval of the drug in September from the SFDA. Relenza, like Tamiflu from Roche ( RHHBY.PK ), aims at reducing both the severity and the duration of flu symptoms, though some resistance to the drugs seems to be evident. The move...
The Medical Quack (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tamiflu will remain as the the treatment of choice for the flu. The scary part of this is that 3 of the 4 patients died who had the resistant flu. CDC is investigating. Relenza is another drug that can be used to fight the flu but has some limitations on who can take it, pre-school and those with respiratory disease are out of the loop for this drug. BD RALEIGH, N.C. | A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant...
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
GlaxoSmithKline will begin manufacturing its treatment for flu, Relenza, in China to supply China’s domestic market. GSK received approval of the drug in September from the SFDA. Relenza, like Tamiflu from Roche, aims at reducing both the severity and the duration of flu symptoms, though some resistance to the drugs seems to be evident. [More...]
CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Canada.com: 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. Sophos, a British security software firm said it had intercepted hundreds of millions of fake pharmaceutical spam adverts and websites this year, many of them trying to sell counterfeit antiviral drugs like Tamiflu to worried customers....
New Humanist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
On the way home from work last night, as I sat on London's Piccadilly Line, a man briefly sat next to me who seemed a little on edge. He was fidgeting and looking around, which I have to say was starting to annoy me (not that, as a London commuter, I'd have said or done anything about it), but he didn't stay for long. Having boarded at Holborn, he stood up again at the next stop, Covent Garden and,...
fluman11 | 11/06/2009
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Canadian Medicine (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A selection of our favourite Canadian health advisories issued over the last few days. Solubilize, nebulize, die When treating H1N1 flu patients, don't solubilize and then nebulize your powdered zanamivir (Relenza) and then put it in a ventilator. A pregnant woman died when the lactose in the powdered zanamivir combined with the liquid used to dissolve the powder and blocked her ventilator . You'll...
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Sharply higher sales of flu drug Relenza buoyed GlaxoSmithKline's quarterly sales and the British group said it was in line for a big swine flu vaccine boost in the last three months of the year....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Sharply higher sales of flu drug Relenza buoyed GlaxoSmithKline's quarterly sales and the group said it was in line for a big swine flu vaccine boost in the last three months of the year.
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Federal regulators rushed through an emergency authorization of intravenous peramivir, which is made by BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, just days after lawmakers pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a green light. The authorization late Friday gives physicians the authority to use the IV antiviral when Relenza or Tamiflu either don't appear to help or when patients can't physically...
eDrugSearch Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As the 2009/2010 influenza season progresses, there is cause for worry. Flu activity is already widespread in 46 states, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the 2009 novel H1N1 flu virus, popularly known as the “swine flu,” is on the rise. Meanwhile, the swine flu vaccine is difficult to obtain, leaving many [...]
eDrugSearch Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As the 2009/2010 influenza season progresses, there is cause for worry. Flu activity is already widespread in 46 states, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the 2009 novel H1N1 flu virus, popularly known as the “swine flu,” is on the rise. Meanwhile, the swine flu vaccine is difficult to obtain, leaving many [...]
eDrugSearch Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As the 2009/2010 influenza season progresses, there is cause for worry. Flu activity is already widespread in 46 states, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the 2009 novel H1N1 flu virus, popularly known as the “swine flu,” is on the rise. Meanwhile, the swine flu vaccine is difficult to obtain, leaving many [...]
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fluman11 | 11/06/2009
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susy09 | 06/17/2009
The antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are relatively safe for use in pregnant and breastfeeding women, say the authors of review of data that includes previously unpublished evidence. The analysis, published electronically on Monday by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, suggested Tamiflu is the best bet for pregnant women, but either drug can be used safely by breastfeeding women who come...
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