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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-26 19:55 UPDATE 1-Roche offers companies plan to stock...
Found on 26 Jun 2008 21:20 GMT
WASHINGTON, June 26 - Roche offered U.S. companies a plan on Thursday to reserve stockpiles of its flu capsule Tamiflu in case of a pandemic of influenza, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department backed the plan.

Roche offers companies plan to stockpile Tamiflu (AlertNet)
Found on 26 Jun 2008 20:48 GMT
Source: Reuters (Writes through with quotes, details; adds byline) By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, June 26 - Roche offered U.S. companies a plan on Thursday to ...

Faster Test Detects Fake Tamiflu Drugs
Found on 08 Apr 2008 08:59 GMT
Title: Faster Test Detects Fake Tamiflu Drugs
Category: Health News
Created: 4/8/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/8/2008

Stronger Psychiatric Warning on Tamiflu
Found on 05 Mar 2008 07:59 GMT
Title: Stronger Psychiatric Warning on Tamiflu
Category: Health News
Created: 3/5/2008
Last Editorial Review: 3/5/2008

Some Flu Cases Resist Flu Drug Tamiflu
Found on 01 Feb 2008 07:59 GMT
Title: Some Flu Cases Resist Flu Drug Tamiflu
Category: Health News
Created: 2/1/2008
Last Editorial Review: 2/1/2008

Panel: Ease Kids' Tamiflu Drug Warning
Found on 28 Nov 2007 07:59 GMT
Title: Panel: Ease Kids' Tamiflu Drug Warning
Category: Health News
Created: 11/28/2007
Last Editorial Review: 11/28/2007

Another firm wins Tamiflu licence
Found on 01 Apr 2006 00:28 GMT
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said yesterday that it had granted a sub-licence to a Shenzhen-based pharmaceutical company to produce Tamiflu, believed to be the most effective medicine against bird flu.

The deal allows Shenzhen-based HEC Group to produce the generic form of Tamiflu known as oseltamivir for use in pandemic prevention and control. The drug will be supplied through governm...

WHO wants to know more about Tamiflu
Found on 19 Mar 2006 12:14 GMT
The World Health Organization has called for urgent studies on Roche's flu drug Tamiflu to determine its effectiveness in the fight against bird flu in humans. In a statement from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said there was no clinical evidence of the anti-viral drug's efficacy against the deadly H5N1 virus. But it reaffirmed that Tamiflu should be used to treat suspected cases and to p...

China begins clinical studies on Tamiflu
Found on 19 Mar 2006 12:12 GMT
China has given the go ahead to a Shanghai-based pharmaceutical firm to begin clinical studies on the effectiveness of Tamiflu drug that is believed to be the best form of defence against bird flu in humans.

The drug will be manufactured by Shanghai Sunve Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd under a licensing arrangement with Swiss drug producer Roche.

The study will seek to establish if the Tamiflu produ...

Tamiflu back on the market
Found on 16 Mar 2006 13:16 GMT
Roche Canada has resumed sales of its sought-after flu drug Tamiflu to regular pharmacies in Canada. But a company official says efforts are being made to keep Canadian supplies from flowing to Internet pharmacies. Some of those Internet outlets have been taking advantage of pandemic fears by selling the scarce drug at huge mark-ups. That discrepancy is why Roche stopped distributing to phar...

Influenza crisis Is Tamiflu enough
Found on 10 Mar 2006 22:15 GMT
Indeed, influenza has proved to be a potential epidemic stuff in the recent history. According to the health figures, up to 60 million Americans develop flu each year and more than 200,000 are hospitalized. During the past epidemics in the US, influenza and its complications caused more than 500,000 deaths.

The latest health scare worldwide is the avian influenza that has spread its tentacles ...

Indonesia plans massive increase in Tamiflu
Found on 10 Mar 2006 22:11 GMT
Indonesia, which has suffered more deaths from bird flu this year than any other country, plans a massive increase in its supply of anti-flu Tamiflu tablets, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported on Sunday.

If taken within two days of contracting the virus, Tamiflu can work against the often deadly H5N1 flu, which international tests show has killed nine people in Indonesia so far in 2006.

The ...

Japanese researchers find new way to make Tamiflu
Found on 03 Mar 2006 12:05 GMT
A team of Japanese researchers has developed a new way of producing the anti-flu drug Tamiflu that does not rely on natural ingredients and may help ensure more stable supplies, the head of the team said. Tamiflu, produced by Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG , is considered one of the best defences against bird flu in humans, and there are fears of a possible shortage in the...

Japanese Tamiflu Is Easier To Make
Found on 28 Feb 2006 12:47 GMT
Scientists in Japan have cornered a big breakthrough in the quest to find easier ways of making the Tamiflu drug easier to produce. The scientists made their Tamiflu from petroleum based compounds which could help to ease the problems of excess demand and poor supply of the drug. The scientists from the University of Tokyo stated that they were able to make Tamiflu without having to resort to...

Tokyo U develops better Tamiflu formula
Found on 27 Feb 2006 21:02 GMT
A group of researchers at Tokyo University has developed a formula to produce the antiflu medicine Tamiflu using a petrochemical material instead of the plant-based ingredient used currently. The group, headed by Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki of the Tokyo University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, said the new method would ensure the stable supply of the antiviral drug in the face of s...

Hetero Drugs avails two lakh capsules of Tamiflu
Found on 23 Feb 2006 23:18 GMT
City-based Hetero Drugs would avail two lakh capsules of Tamiflu to the government and has made clear that there was enough stock of drug in the country.

The current capacity of the company is that it could produce 13 million capsules per month, which could be scaled up to 60 million capsules.

The company has Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient of the drug equivalent of one million capsules in ...

Oseltamivir eases asthma during flu.(Clinical Capsules)
Treatment with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) within 24 hours of the onset of flu symptoms reduced exacerbations of asthma in children aged 6-12 years, wrote Sebastian L. Johnston, M.D., of Imperial College, London, and his associates (Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 2005;24:225-32). In a randomized, double-blind,

Publication: Pediatric News

FDA Approval of New Indication for Oseltamivir.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for oseltamivir (Tamiflu), a neuraminidase inhibitor previously approved for the treatment of uncomplicated influenza in adults. Oseltamivir is now approved for the prevention of influenza in adults and children 13 years and

Publication: American Family Physician