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US News & World Report - Wed Dec 9, 2:31 pm ET
Computer screening reveals possible drugs the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses wouldn’t be able to resist.
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Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy - Tue Dec 8, 9:04 pm ET
Dec 9, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – In an update of a review on the role of neuraminidase inhibitors in seasonal flu prevention and treatment, the authors reversed a previous conclusion that oseltamivir (Tamiflu) prevents complications like pneumonia in healthy patients because they were unable to reconstruct the data in one of the key studies that found a benefit.
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Science Daily - Tue Dec 8, 4:10 pm ET
A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1 (avian flu) or H1N1/09 (swine flu) develop resistance to current antiviral therapies.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 10:38 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Flu vaccine shortages in developing nations may destabilize global security should the H1N1 virus become more deadly, said David Heymann , a former deputy head of the World Health Organization.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 12:32 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Alan Sipress needed more than a pen and paper to report on bird flu. To interview the mother of two victims in Java, he showed up wearing a white hooded jumpsuit with goggles, a respirator and rubber gloves that made it hard to take notes.
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Technology Review - Tue Dec 8, 12:21 am ET
Fragments of known drugs could lead to a more robust antiviral for H1N1 and other flu variants.
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The Epoch Times - Sun Dec 6, 9:15 pm ET
When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of swine flu, some experts predicted that if swine flu combined with the avian flu in Asia, it would probably cause a genetic mixing of the swine flu and the avian flu, and the result would be very serious.
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Washington Post - Sun Dec 6, 12:00 am ET
Alan Sipress's superb and sobering "The Fatal Strain" details the shadowy progression of a virulent avian flu now moving across Asia.
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Vernal Express - Fri Dec 4, 6:30 pm ET
Cases of the H1N1 virus appear to be subsiding locally after a busy period from mid-September through mid-October, TriCounty Health Department Director Joseph Shaffer told listeners at Thursday’s Uintah Basin Regional Council meeting.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 8:23 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Dec 4, 7:00 am ET
MALVERN, Pa. & STAFFORD, England----PuriCore , the life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary, green solutions that safely, effectively, and naturally kill infectious pathogens without causing harm to human health or the environment, was named as winner of the Emerging Life Sciences Company of the Year award, at the Eastern Technology Council’s 17th annual ...
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redOrbit - Thu Dec 3, 6:11 pm ET
Swine flu has major implications for solid organ transplantsSurgeons and other healthcare professionals specialising in solid organ transplants have been issued with expert advice to guide them through the complex clinical issues posed by the global H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.The paper, published online by the American Journal of Transplantation, also urges them to stay alert to the significant ...
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Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy - Thu Dec 3, 4:34 pm ET
Dec 3, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization's (WHO's) top influenza expert said today it's too soon to judge whether the H1N1 influenza pandemic has passed its peak, though he acknowledged that cases are dropping in the United States and Canada.
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Science Daily - Thu Dec 3, 10:13 am ET
The global swine flu pandemic has major implications for solid organ transplants, including donor selection and transplant management and care. There are also significant concerns that swine flu could combine with seasonal or bird flu to create a strain with unpredictable virulence. American and Canadian experts have teamed up to provide expert advice on the infection risks to transplants.
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Alibi - Wed Dec 2, 8:14 pm ET
One of the greatest tragedies of my life is that the crabby robot dude in The Matrix compared human beings to viruses before I was able to publish my doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled Infectious Intelligence: The World’s First Bipedal Disease. Sadly, The Matrix totally stole my thunder, because my dissertation explained how human beings have overrun the planet in the same way that a ...
