Tamiflu

Tamiflu antiviral medicine It is common for people to catch the flu in colder climates. However, flu can be caught under pretty much any environmental conditions, due to the fact that it is a virus. There have been many flu strains over the last few dec …

United States Considers Modifying its Drug Stockpile

United States Considers Modifying its Drug Stockpile A variety of H1N1 influenza virus appears to be the leading flu that is spreading now and all of the H1N1 strains, which were tested in North America, were resistant to tamiflu. Other influenza viruse …

Resistance to Tamiflu

Resistance to Tamiflu Prompts Change In Pandemic Stockpile Medical researchers are trying to discover if using oseltamivir and an older influenza medication can reduce the chance of flu viruses developing a resistance. In Canada, they are attempting to  …

Tamiflu And Relenza shortage

Crisis Administration For Dispensing Tamiflu And Relenza On April 26th, 2009, a public health emergency was declared by the Health and Human Services Department [HHS] regarding the outbreak of the influenza H1N1 virus. Because of the declaration, the Ce …

Marketing Tamiflu

Marketing Tamiflu The name Tamiflu was the second choice, last minute name approved by Roche for their new antiviral medication in 1999. Also in the same year, just in time for the yearly influenza outbreak, oseltamivir was permitted as a prescription f …

H5N1 virus treatment (Tamiflu aka Oseltamivir)

Doubling Up Doses of Oseltamivir Hoping To Reduce Fatalities Oseltamivir has been used successfully to treat patients who have contracted the bird flu virus, or H5N1. The regular dose available by prescription is 75 mg taken orally, two times each day f …

Tamiflu Production

The Main Ingredient Of Tamiflu Hard To Come By Star Anise is a spice that originates in Southern China, and is the base ingredient for the anti-viral drug, Oseltamivir or generic tamiflu. This spice is made from the fruit of the star anise tree and is a …

Generic Tamiflu

Generic Tamiflu Available Through Indian Manufacturer A drug manufacturer, Cipla Ltd., based in India, has announced that it has the ability to provide sufficient Generic Tamiflu to respond to a global swine flu epidemic, if needed. The amount of the an …

Tamiflu Production Deficiency

Oseltamivir Production Deficiency Due to Lack Of Shikimic Acid By 2006, Roche was putting out close to 400 million full treatments of oseltamivir annually. This number far exceeded the number of actual orders Roche had received for the drug and they sta …

Stockpile of Tamiflu

American Government Strategy And Generic Tamiflu In April of 2009, three identifiable swine flu cases in Texas prompted the Governor to request nearly 38,000 doses of oseltamivir from the CDC. In November 2005, Then president George W. Bush asked Con …