– the company received $72 million in federal funding to develop Brincidofovir The CEO of pharmaceutical company that could supply a life-saving anti-viral drugs to a 7-year-old cancer sufferer refuses to hand the drugs over Chimerix chief Kenneth Moch hung… Read More ›
Antiviral drug
Swine flu pandemic media pundits with pharma links more likely to talk up risks and promote drugs
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmj.com 44-020-738-36529 BMJ-British Medical Journal Competing interests should be declared — and reported — to maintain credibility of public health, say researchers Academics with links to the pharmaceutical industry were more likely to talk up the… Read More ›
U.S. baby’s HIV infection cured through very early treatment
Sun, 3 Mar 2013 21:29 GMT Reuters * Mississippi girl’s case is the first account of an HIV cure in an infant * Doctors started treatment within 30 hours of the child’s birth By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, March 3 (Reuters)… Read More ›
‘Dung of the devil’ plant roots point to new swine flu drugs: Showed greater potency against influenza A (H1N1) than a prescription antiviral drugs
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society Scientists in China have discovered that roots of a plant used a century ago during the great Spanish influenza pandemic contains substances with powerful effects in laboratory… Read More ›
Tamiflu survives sewage treatment ( oseltamivir )
Contact: Jerker Fick jerker.fick@chem.umu.se 46-480-446-225 Public Library of Science Swedish researchers have discovered that oseltamivir (Tamiflu); an antiviral drug used to prevent and mitigate influenza infections is not removed or degraded during normal sewage treatment. Consequently, in countries where Tamiflu… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 