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(CIDRAP News) – The British journal BMJ this week renewed its campaign to persuade Roche to release unpublished clinical trial data on the flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu)—and used the occasion to announce that in the future it will publish only those drug trial reports whose sponsors agree to release all trial data when requested.
Nov 2, 2012
Nov 1, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Commercially available rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) detected common virus strains at high concentrations fairly well but performed variably at lower concentrations, an evaluation of all 11 Food and Drug Administration–approved RIDTs showed.
(CIDRAP News) – Nine more patients have been sickened in a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts company's tainted steroid injections, boosting the total so far to 386, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Oct 31, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – A second compounding pharmacy today recalled all of its products in the wake of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigations surrounding a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated injectable steroids.
Oct 30, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – An annual report released yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) profiles a wide range of CDC influenza-related projects around the world, from flu surveillance in Indonesia to vaccine effectiveness studies in El Salvador and epidemiology training in Ghana.
(CIDRAP News) – Safety problems with products from compounding pharmacies even before the current multistate fungal meningitis outbreak led to at least 23 deaths and 86 serious illnesses or injuries in 34 states over the past decade, according to a report today from a Massachusetts congressman.
Oct 29, 2012
Oct 26, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – With this year's big outbreak of swine-origin H3N2 influenza apparently over, a leading flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says extensive contact with pigs seems to have been the key risk factor and that very few cases had clear signs of human-to-human transmission.
(CIDRAP News) – The compounding pharmacy that produced tainted steroid injections implicated in a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak had problems maintaining the clean room where the drugs were processed, according to a federal report today that found, for example, greenish residue on the ceiling.
(CIDRAP News) – Researchers report that swine and human influenza A/H3N2 viruses associated with an Ohio county fair held in July make a nearly perfect genetic match, suggesting that there is almost no biological barrier to prevent such viruses from passing between humans and pigs.
(CIDRAP News) – The world has the tools to eradicate polio, but it's unclear if countries have the political and social will to fully implement and finance emergency plans, a spokesman for the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said yesterday to mark World Polio Day.
The observance is held on Oct 24, the birth date of Jonas Salk, the US virologist who invented the polio vaccine.
Oct 25, 2012
