Roche&#39;s Tamiflu Works Against Bird Flu Strain-Study
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Roche AG&#39;s Tamiflu anti-influenza drug has been proven to work against H5N1, the strain of the avian flu virus that the World Health Organization says could be the source of a deadly flu pandemic.
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PARIS -- A new technique for making human vaccines against the H5N1 avian influenza virus produces inoculations that are effective at very low doses, potentially solving the vexing problem of how the world will make adequate numbers of shots in the event of a flu pandemic. In an article published online today by the journal Lancet, Chinese researchers at the ...
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Doctors are pestering salespeople at drug maker Roche for samples of Tamiflu, an anti-viral flu medication made in Boulder. Boulder retailer Pharmaca is seeing a run on homeopathic remedies to stave off the flu.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they had  made a breakthrough in the race to develop a drug for the H5N1  bird flu virus if it mutates into a form that can jump from  human to human.
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Blood donated by four survivors of bird flu seems to harbor a potent protection against the deadly virus. Scientists have long suspected that culling immune-system molecules from survivors could provide a new therapy for the hard-to-treat H5N1 flu strain. Monday, an international team of researchers reported the first evidence, albeit from tests in mice, that it really may work.
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Data on Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in documents released on Monday.
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Veterinary experts have found a low-risk strain of bird flu in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, the principality&#39;s chief vet said Thursday.
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Researchers win a grant to help produce a drug that could stop flu and other diseases from replicating in humans.
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The main influenza virus circulating in the United States has shown raised resistance to Roche Holding Ag's Tamiflu, already found to be less potent in parts of Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said  on Friday that despite new research indicating some viral  resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its "drug of choice" for  protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu  pandemic.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Core net profit at Roche  Holding AG rose by less than expected in 2004 despite strong  sales of cancer drugs, as products such as flu drug Tamiflu  suffered a weaker fourth quarter.
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Patients who take Tamiflu should be closely monitored for signs of abnormal behavior, health officials said yesterday in announcing an updated label for the flu drug.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that despite new research indicating some resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its âdrug of choiceâ for protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu pandemic.
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The biggest case yet of humans possibly infecting others with bird flu prompted the World Health Organization to put the maker of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu on alert for possible shipment of the global stockpile for the first time, officials said Saturday.
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Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.
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Schering's hepatitis C drug works as well as Roche's.
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TORONTO - An anti-flu drug will remain a frontline defence against the virus, despite a new study that found more childhood cases of resistance than expected, an influenza expert with the World Health Organization said Friday.