Topic: Tamiflu
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-11 16:03:42
<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Friday endorsed findings that there is no clear evidence the antiviral Tamiflu prevents complications such as pneumonia in otherwise healthy people with seasonal flu.</p><p>But the WHO continues to recommend that Tamiflu, made by Swiss drugmaker Roche, be used immediately in ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-11 12:10:22
<div><p>The World Health Organisation on Friday stood by its advice on the use of Tamiflu in high risk swine flu patients, insisting that it was effective in those cases despite a study questioning the antiviral drug.</p><p>WHO spokesman Gregory Haertl said the UN agency was not challenging the ...
AP News | 2009-12-10 16:38:00
<div id="subtitle">Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought, about 100 times less lethal than 1918 flu</div><div><p>Swine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday — about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu.</p><p>To ...
AP Features | 2009-12-10 10:37:20
<div><p>North Korea agreed Thursday to accept medicine from South Korea to fight an outbreak of swine flu, a Cabinet minister said, in a development that could improve relations between the nations after a deadly maritime clash.</p><p>"Today, the North expressed its intention to receive" the medical aid, South ...
