Flu Shows Resistance to Popular Drug
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A small Japanese study suggests that influenza viruses are becoming resistant to Tamiflu, a widely used drug that eases the flu&#39;s symptoms, and that the resistance may be more common than thought.
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The influenza vaccine given to Americans may not protect as well as expected, U.S. health officials said on Friday as the number of flu cases increased nationwide.
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The unexpected flu vaccine shortage is thrusting a class of powerful virus-fighting drugs into a sudden spotlight. For more than a quarter century, doctors have turned to antiviral medications
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- People most vulnerable to contracting the flu should not be standing in long lines for the vaccine because there should be enough for all who need it, federal officials said today.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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Over half of influenza patients in Japan showing abnormal behavior had taken the drug Tamiflu, but it is not clear if there was a causal link between the drug and their actions, a government report showed on Monday.
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Concerns that the influenza drug Tamiflu -- seen as effective against a possible pandemic triggered by bird flu -- may induce fatal side effects are growing in Japan after two people who took it fell to their deaths last month.
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LONDON - Rapidly vaccinating the masses is the key to fighting pandemics, say scientists who concluded the flu pandemic of 1918 was less contagious than thought.
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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.
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Among HIV-infected adults who have not been previously treated with HIV drugs who start on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), less than perfect adherence to medication schedules and high levels of HIV in the blood before therapy are two major predictors of drug resistance.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.
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WASHINGTON Nov 7, 2004 - Sales of over-the-counter drugs to treat the flu may help the government more quickly spot local outbreaks.
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The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, ...
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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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Almost 70 percent of child pneumonia patients in a recent Chinese survey were resistant to drugs used to treat the disease due to overuse of antibiotics, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
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_ Health officials said the flu was &quot;widespread&quot; in the city on Tuesday after finding increases in positive cultures from local labs, sales of over-the-counter flu medications and the number of people reporting symptoms in doctors&#39; offices
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CHICAGO - Prescribing antibiotics to patients with chronic sinus infections doesn&#39;t necessarily cause them to develop resistance to the drugs, a new study suggests.