With increasing time since diagnosis, only the severe infections continued to cause symptoms.
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(CIDRAP News) – The British journal BMJ this week renewed its campaign to persuade Roche to release unpublished clinical trial data on the flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu)—and used the occasion to announce that in the future it will publish only those drug trial reports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.
(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) – 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.
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