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Flu Virus Trots Globe During Off Season, Mixes With Other Viral Strains

Flu Virus Trots Globe During Off Season, Mixes With Other Viral Strains

   The influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus, according to biologists who say the finding settles a key debate on what the virus does during the summer off season when it is not infecting people.

Posted : Sat, Sep 22, 2007

Category : Science / Health News

Tamiflu 30 mg and 45 mg Capsules Approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Tamiflu 30 mg and 45 mg Capsules Approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration

   Roche announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to market Tamiflu(R) (oseltamivir phosphate) capsules in 30 mg and 45 mg doses.

Posted : Wed, Jul 04, 2007

Category : Science / Health News

Vietnam Reports Four Bird Flu Cases

Vietnam Reports Four Bird Flu Cases

   Vietnam's Health Department say that four members, all in a family in Nam Can district, have been hospitalized with symptoms of bird flu, in the country's first suspected cases of the disease in more than a year.

Posted : Mon, Jan 01, 2007

Category : Science / Health News

Miracle flu vaccine go on trial

Miracle flu vaccine go on trial

   Scientists from British biotech firm Acambis and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology in Belgium invented a miracle vaccine which could protect patients from all major strains of flu.

Posted : Sun, Dec 31, 2006

Category : Science / Health News
 
 
 
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