Showing posts with label Antiviral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antiviral. Show all posts
Thursday, January 29, 2015

ECDC Influenza Season Risk Assessment

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Credit ECDC – Week 3   # 9642   While North America’s flu season is already well underway ( and in some regions has already peak...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

CDC HAN Advisory On `Drifted’ H3N2 Seasonal Flu Virus

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# 9408   Late yesterday the CDC issued a HAN Advisory for clinicians on the possibility of seeing ` drifted’ H3N2 virus infections ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

UK PHE: Revisiting Influenza Antiviral Recommendations

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Credit UK PHE   # 9283   Last spring the Cochrane group made headlines ( again ) for their less-than-sparkling review of the infl...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

CID Journal: Under Utilization Of Antivirals For At Risk Flu Patients

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  # 8842   Between the frequent hyperbolic demonization of  influenza antivirals ( see Daily Mail: Ministers blew £650MILLIO...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

The CDC Responds To The Cochrane Tamiflu Study

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Photo Credit CDC   # 8457   Earlier today, in Revisiting Tamiflu Efficacy (Again), I wrote at some length on the BMJ –  Coch...

Revisiting Tamiflu Efficacy (Again)

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      # 8455   Just over two years ago in The Tamiflu Controversy Continues , we looked at the ongoing debate over the effective...
Friday, April 04, 2014

PLoS Pathogens: Fitness Advantage From Permissive NA Mutations In Oseltamivir Resistant pH1N1

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    # 8429   Hopefully today’s blog won’t be as tedious as the title might first suggest.   Oseltamivir ( aka Tamiflu ®) – an...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Lancet: Effectiveness Of NAI Antivirals In Reducing Mortality In Hospitalized H1N1pdm09 Cases

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    # 8387   If you want to start a row on the Internet, simply say something positive about Roche’s neuraminidase inhibitor (NAI)...