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Tamiflu has little or no impact on complications of flu infection

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    Tamiflu has little or no impact on complications of flu infection

    Interesting bit of news that has been breaking in the UK, this morning.

    Not sure if Tamiflu was being used during SARs. But I do recall Tamiflu was being stockpiled by the HK govt during some pig / avian flu outbreak. Have heard from people who have had the flu recently (actual diagnosed flu) that Tamiflu is still being used / given out.


    http://www.theguardian.com/business/...als-big-pharma

    Today we found out that Tamiflu doesn't work so well after all. Roche, the drug company behind it, withheld vital information on its clinical trials for half a decade, but the Cochrane Collaboration, a global not-for-profit organisation of 14,000 academics, finally obtained all the information. Putting the evidence together, it has found that Tamiflu has little or no impact on complications of flu infection, such as pneumonia.

    That is a scandal because the UK government spent £0.5bn stockpiling this drug in the hope that it would help prevent serious side-effects from flu infection. But the bigger scandal is that Roche broke no law by withholding vital information on how well its drug works. In fact, the methods and results of clinical trials on the drugs we use today are still routinely and legally being withheld from doctors, researchers and patients. It is simple bad luck for Roche that Tamiflu became, arbitrarily, the poster child for the missing-data story.
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    This is hardly news - we discussed this at great length on these forums several years ago. You can find many threads just by Googling for "Tamiflu site:geoexpat.com"

    And a blog post by some bloke named "smog" on 10 March 2008.

    Last edited by Gruntfuttock; 10-04-2014 at 07:05 PM.