Drugs becoming resistant to flu virus
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A study in Japan suggests influenza is becoming resistant to drugs -- such as Relenza and Tamiflu -- designed to treat the virus. Researchers found that of 50 children admitted to a Japan hospital with 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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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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The parasite that causes river blindness, a crippling disease endemic in Africa and tropical regions of the Americas, may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it, according to research published Friday in The Lancet.
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Washington - World Health Organisation (WHO) and United States medical experts have warned that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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New data presented at the InterScience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Washington DC confirm that Tamiflu (oseltamivir), an oral neuraminidase inhibitor (NAI), is effective against human and avian H5N1 influenza virus.
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A fragment of a human protein that blocks influenza viruses -- including avian flu -- from attaching to and infecting cells holds promise if laboratory experiments are borne out, researchers said on Wednesday.
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International health officials are increasingly concerned that the elements giving rise to a long-feared international epidemic of influenza are falling into place in Asia, piece by piece.
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Seasonal influenza is spreading widely throughout the United States, with nearly half the cases caused by strains of the virus that are not directly covered by this year's flu vaccine.
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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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New research finds Tamiflu-resistant strains of the most common flu virus popping up all over the world
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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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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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It may be possible to save more lives by reversing drug resistance in lung cancer patients, say scientists.
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Among young children with influenza, virus mutations that are resistant to Tamiflu arise in about 20 percent of those treated with the drug, Japanese researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - The rate of skin and soft tissue infections that were resistant to most antibiotics, acquired in Chicago communities, increased rapidly between 2000 and 2005, researchers report.
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The lack of available flu vaccine in US this flu season means a substantial portion of the population will not be protected against influenza infection.