Engineering microbes could be our best hope for creating enough antiviral drugs. As fears spread about a potential flu pandemic, Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) has found ...

Influenza is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and rising rapidly among that nation's population of 124.5 ...

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The average number of influenza cases per medical institution for a week reached a record high of 64.39 in late December, the ...

However, baloxavir may have resulted in treatment resistance in approximately 10% of those treated, the authors noted in JAMA ...

The number of influenza patients reported at designated medical institutions across Japan at the end of the year hit the ...

Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that makes Tamiflu, buys huge amounts of star anise from China to extract shikimic acid, the active ingredient in the drug. Industry insiders say the two ...