Compared to Tamiflu that requires two doses daily for 5 days, now a single dose of Xofluza can cure the illness. New drug to reach Indian markets in 2-3 years.
Allison and Honjo made key discoveries about immune checkpoints that later led to the development of immunotherapies that have proven successful in humans.
A growing crop of research, including a New England Journal of Medicine study, suggests there are gains to be made by better using drugs we already have.
Hari uses his own experience of anti-depressant abuse and the discovery of a complicit system of over-prescription in the health industry to ask the one question the doctor failed to — Tell me about your life.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
I do not think the author of this article is a medical professional nor is she familiar with the medical terms used. No research has claimed that either Tamiflu or the new drug Baloxavir are cures of the illness per se. Both drugs are most useful to prevent spread of infection rather than to cure the disease within the patient himself. They reduce the severity or duration of the illness which is what the research mentions. Baloxavir does not cure in a single day. Its dosage is a single dose, that is all. There is a huge difference in medical terms between those two sentences. Also, your author forgot to mention that either Oseltamivir or Baloxavir are effective only if taken within 48 hours of onset of illness. In India, getting the infected sample to a recognised lab and getting the report to confirm the disease takes 2 weeks.
I do not think the author of this article is a medical professional nor is she familiar with the medical terms used. No research has claimed that either Tamiflu or the new drug Baloxavir are cures of the illness per se. Both drugs are most useful to prevent spread of infection rather than to cure the disease within the patient himself. They reduce the severity or duration of the illness which is what the research mentions. Baloxavir does not cure in a single day. Its dosage is a single dose, that is all. There is a huge difference in medical terms between those two sentences. Also, your author forgot to mention that either Oseltamivir or Baloxavir are effective only if taken within 48 hours of onset of illness. In India, getting the infected sample to a recognised lab and getting the report to confirm the disease takes 2 weeks.