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Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
James Urquhart |
New direction for flu drugs Researchers have developed a new class of anti-flu drug that could prevent new virus strains developing resistance and help control future pandemics while more effective vaccines are prepared.   |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2006
David Compton |
Glaxo's New Flu-Fighting Ammo The FDA certifies the drugmaker's Relenza for defense as well as offense. For investors seeking to give their portfolios a shot in the arm, now might be the time to take a closer look at Glaxo. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2012
Jessica Cocker |
Helping the fight against flu Scientists from Australia and the US have developed a synthesis for a drug that gives higher yields and antiviral activity than currently used commercial drugs, such as Relenza (zanamivir) and Tamiflu (oseltamivir), they claim. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2006
Gregory Juckett |
Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic. |
Managed Care
February 2005
Jack McCain |
Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance? |
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Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Surfaces Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus. |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004 |
Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Jeff Wise |
Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Viral Nanoreactor Captures Single Molecules Researchers in the Netherlands have created a biochemical nanoreactor by cracking open a virus, removing its contents then reassembling the virus's protein coat around a single molecule of enzyme. |
Chemistry World
August 25, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
New Source of Tamiflu Japanese scientists have discovered a new way of obtaining shikimic acid, the compound needed to make the influenza drug Tamiflu. |
Searcher
June 2006
Eva C. Perkins |
Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Chasing Down Bird Flu Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are emerging as the likely winners in the race to produce a bird flu vaccine. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
Popular Mechanics
July 31, 2007
John Galvin |
Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2007
Victoria J. Davey |
Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2005
Patrick Clinton |
From the Editor: It Never Changes (Until It Does) Change is bubbling around through the industry, its customers, and its regulators. Should pharmaceutical companies be doing the equivalent of taking two aspirin and calling in the morning or building an ark? |
Managed Care
December 2005
Jack McCain |
Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
The shortest recipe for Tamiflu US chemists have published the shortest synthesis to date of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), the anti-influenza drug which is also used to treat bird flu. |
Managed Care
November 2002 |
Flu season: Most HMO formularies cover Tamiflu, Relenza As the influenza season approaches, managed care patient access to Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from Roche Laboratories and Relenza (zanamivir) from GlaxoSmithKline, the two medications indicated for influenza, looks relatively open. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Choi & Wilcox |
Updates: Whatever Happened to the Universal Flu Vaccine? Fighting influenza... Mass extinctions... Stem cell ban... The right to sue drug companies... |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Regulatory Watch The USDA has set up a toll-free number for poultry producers to report any suspicious deaths or illnesses in their flocks that could be the deadly H5N1 virus, or "bird flu." |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2000
Norman J. Montalto |
Updated Treatment for Influenza A and B The prevention of influenza is best accomplished with a broad-based immunization program... |
AskMen.com
Jen Woodward |
False Pandemic Scares While nobody can say for sure if or when another pandemic will strike, these historic false alarms might soothe your fears. |
Scientific American
November 2005 |
Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Roche and the Tamiflu data The Swiss pharma company has agreed to talk to external groups about full access to data for antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) tablets, according to a letter published by the British Medical Journal. |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2003 |
Antiviral Drugs in the Immunocompetent Host: Part II. Treatment of Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2002
Brian J. Kingston & Charles V. Wright, Jr. |
Influenza in the Nursing Home Although influenza affects persons of all ages, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified several groups who are at increased risk for complications. One such group is residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities... |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2014
Angeli Mehta |
Flu drug stockpile may be worthless The case for spending hundreds of millions of pounds stockpiling antivirals for use in a flu pandemic is based on 'judgement rather than on evidence of their effectiveness', according to a parliamentary committee. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2006
Bea Perks |
Sugar-Coated Antibodies The fate of the prey captured by our body's guardian antibodies can be determined by sugar molecules found on the antibody's surface. The news has come as a surprise to immunologists, who were unsure of these sugar molecules' exact role. |
PC World
November 17, 2000
Kim Zetter |
Three Minutes With 'Doctor Owl,' Virus Writer A young virus writer describes his motivation and denies responsibility, while dreaming of creating a 'new breed' of undetectable virus... |
