News tagged with flu drug
What you need to know about swine flu (Update)
(AP) -- A never-before-seen strain of swine flu has turned killer in Mexico and is causing milder illness in the United States and elsewhere. While authorities say it's not time to panic, they are taking ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Man-made crises 'outrunning our ability to deal with them,' scientists warn
The world faces a compounding series of crises driven by human activity, which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with, a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists has ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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A New Way of Treating the Flu
What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question is presenting itself right now to scientists and health officials this week at the World Health ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 13, 2009 |
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Chemists discover how antiviral drugs bind to and block flu virus
Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led ...
Feb 03, 2010 |
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New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells
Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability ...
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Humans are responsible for swine flu
Swine flu. Bird flu. Mad cow disease. SARS. These diseases have all spread from animals to humans in one form or another. But animals aren't to blame for outbreaks of animal-borne diseases -- humans are.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 01, 2009 |
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Most would refuse emergency use H1N1 vaccine or additive
A majority of Americans would not take an H1N1 flu vaccine or drug additive authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and University ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Swine flu hits Germany, WHO calls emergency review
(AP) -- Germany confirmed three cases of swine flu on Wednesday, becoming the third European country hit by the disease that has upended life in Mexico. New Zealand's swine flu total rose to 14 and the World ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Questions and answers on swine flu
As the number of swine flu cases grows, so do the questions about how the virus is transmitted and what people can do to prevent it. Here are answers from interviews with doctors and from public-health Web sites.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 29, 2009 |
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WHO urges restraint on Tamiflu in swine flu cases
(AP) -- With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 13, 2009 |
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Compound found to safely counter deadly bird flu
The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public health officials awake at night.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Novel compound found effective against avian influenza virus
A novel compound is highly effective against the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, including some drug-resistant strains, according to new research led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 26, 2010 |
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A new way of the treating the flu: Approach targets both the H and N portions of the virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question is presenting itself right now to scientists and health officials this week ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Britain faces 100,000 swine flu cases a day: minister
Britain could have more than 100,000 cases of swine flu a day by the end of August, the government said Thursday, while stressing there was no need for alarm.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Flu strains developing resistance to key antiviral drug: WHO
Development of a swine flu vaccine was partly triggered by evidence that seasonal influenza strains are developing resistance to antiviral drug Tamiflu, a World Health Organisation expert said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 12, 2009 |
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