Tamiflu prevents pneumonia in kids, study finds
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Children with flu who are given Tamiflu, Roche AG's influenza pill, are 53 percent less likely to develop pneumonia than untreated children, the company reported on Friday.
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Popular heartburn and ulcer drugs can make people more susceptible to pneumonia because they reduce germ-killing stomach acid, Dutch researchers say.
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A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them while nursing, researchers reported on Monday.
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Using antiviral Tamiflu could halve the potential death toll from an influenza pandemic if it was used both to treat and prevent the disease, its maker Roche said on Friday.
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Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG said Friday that it is moving to provide smaller child-sized capsules of Tamiflu, the medicine many governments have been stockpiling as an initial defense against a pandemic that might result from the bird flu virus.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining normal zinc concentrations in the blood may help prevent pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents, a new study shows.
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A new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine aimed at protecting adolescents throughout their college years is safe and effective but should undergo longer-term studies
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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(HealthDay News) - Children are in constant contact with germs, and can easily spread them to others. Flu is a particularly nasty nemesis, but it can be prevented.
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Giving children antibiotics or paracetamol early in life may increase their risk of asthma, Massey health researchers say. They carried out a study involving more than 4000 children and found
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The World Health Organization said that a small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter is resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.
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NEW YORK  - Giving young children the  pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar has had a significant impact on  pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia and middle ear  infections, researchers report.
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Giving children antibiotics to ward off repeat urinary tract infections does not prevent the problem from returning and leads to infections that are resistant to the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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A vaccine targeting a deadly strain of meningitis proved to be safe and highly effective in protecting African children, researchers said on Friday, raising hope that it may help prevent epidemics that afflict many African countries.
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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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FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A laboratory-engineered virus can successfully slow the growth of two types of hard-to-treat pediatric tumors without harming healthy tissue, a new study shows.