Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News

British health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu.

However, it stressed that the mutation did not appear to cause a more contagious or more dangerous form of A influenza and that some similar cases observed elsewhere had been mild.

Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients.

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Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company, announced today that it has expanded its Phase 2 clinical study of a proprietary investigational triple-combination antiviral drug therapy for influenza to include centers in the United States, Canada and Europe.

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Yes, swine flu is widespread -- and college campuses are particularly vulnerable to the virus known as H1N1.

According to an antiviral expert at Laval University, doctors should be careful about to whom they prescribe Tamiflu, an antiviral drug that slows the spread of influenza.

Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday.

Scam artists swung into action just as the first cases of swine flu emerged last spring, public health experts say, offering hundreds of products for sale online, many at Internet pharmacies based overseas.

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These days the doctors who care for children work into the evening and through the weekends.

The pandemic strain A virus has been "amazingly stable," the World Health Organization says.

Doctors should be cautious when prescribing the antiviral drug Tamiflu to prevent illness in people exposed to the H1N1 virus, said an expert who analyzed North America's first reported case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 virus.

Cipla's Oseltamivir brand will cost Rs 475 for 10 capsules, and its 75 ml syrup will be similarly priced.

Nov. 9 Thousands of people began showing up as early as 3:20 a.m. Saturday for free H1N1 influenza vaccinations at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds in San Jose, Calif.

In Demand: A package of Tamiflu is seen in a pharmacy in the Queens borough of New York City.

The H1N1 swine flu virus has picked up steam in the northern hemisphere and is expected to cause more serious infections and deaths as cold weather sets in, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

Pop a vitamin, ban doctors' neckties, vacuum away swine flu germs and smoke an e-cigarette to ward off H1N1.

When Dr. Matt Thompson, a pediatrician at the Kids Clinic in Spokane, Wash., found about a month ago that his six children had come down with H1N1, or swine flu, he did not give them the antiviral medication that might have made their sickness a bit shorter.