Fraudulent Web Sites Profiting From Flu Fears
The Epoch Times
Tamiflu, a vaccine for the H1N1 virus marketed by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding, is widely recommended by the World Health Organization as treatment and prevention of flu symptoms. Due to the scarcity of the vaccine and consumer ...
Asia To Get Flu Drug Stockpile By March 2010
Post Chronicle
The stockpile will be based in Singapore and will include 400,400 courses of Tamiflu, made by Roche Holding AG, and 100,000 of GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza antiviral drug. It is being established as the winter flu season starts to take a grip ...
Roche ‘concerned’ over Kharkiv company’s Tamiflu copycat drug
KPNews.com
As Ukraine scrambles to contain an escalating flu epidemic, pharmaceutical giant Roche has expressed “significant concerns” that a Ukrainian competitor could be violating international patent laws by launching production of a generic versio...
Health Ministry: Purchase of antiviral Tamiflu transparent and legal
KPNews.com
According to him, the producer of Tamiflu, Swiss Roche Company set the recommended price at Hr 340 in an official letter. At the same time, according to a price study conducted by the Economy Ministry, prices for the medicine range from Hr ...
Price spread on Tamiflu prompts investigations
WTOP Radio
USA TODAY reports Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures Tamiflu, has focused on producing capsules, which can be made more quickly. Because the liquid form is in short supply, some pharmacies produce their own child-frie...
Wedgewood Pharmacy Compounding Cherry-Flavored Oseltamivir Phosphate ...
Phramalive.com
The commercially manufactured Tamiflu product, from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, is offered in a 12mg/ml suspension (oseltamivir base) in a 25ml bottle. Wedgewood Pharmacy will fill prescriptions for oseltamivir 12mg/ml 25ml in a sugar-free ch...
Swine Flu Seen as Cresting
Wall Street Journal
Health officials are also investigating reports of a growing number of patients with H1N1 viruses that are resistant to oseltamivir, an antiviral drug marketed by Roche AG as Tamiflu. Seasonal H1N1 viruses are widely resistant to the drug, ...
Mutated Swine Flu Strains Block Drugs, Worsen Illness (Update2)
Bloomberg
Five patients at a hospital in Wales contracted swine flu that resisted treatment with Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu, and three more infections are being analyzed, the U.K. Health Protection Agency said today. Four patients had resistance in a...
Pharmacists remixing adult doses so kids can receive Tamiflu
Globe and Mail
... Roche said the company prioritized the manufacture of adult capsules, because they are used to treat seasonal flu, which affects primarily the elderly. The adult capsule can also be produced 25 times faster than the children's liquid Ta...
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American Free Press
Donald Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu pushers (just as they were in 2006) are set to be the big winners in the GSFS (great swine flu scare of 2009) lottery. Shares of Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding had fallen sharply after their latest cancer drug fail...
AP News in Brief
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tamiflu — made by Switzerland's Roche Group — is one of two flu medicines that help against swine flu, and health officials have been closely watching for signs that the virus is mutating, making the drugs ineffective. More than 50 resistan...
Online Gangs Cashing in on Swine Flu
ABC News
Tamiflu, an antiviral marketed by Switzerland's Roche Holding and known generically as oseltamivir, is the frontline drug recommended by the World Health Organization to treat and slow the progression of flu symptoms. GlaxoSmithKline makes ...
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Staten Island Advance
To help fulfill the growing need for Tamiflu, its manufacturer, Roche, has asked pharmacists to compound the medicine until supplies improve, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association. Even the pills can be hard to find, a...