Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid, an inhaled powder, or an intravenous solution) that fight against the flu in your body. Antiviral drugs are not sold over-the-counter ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and should even be effective against new strains ...

Antiviral drugs are different from antibiotics, which fight against bacterial infections.There are three FDA-approved influenza antiviral drugs -- Tamiflu, Relenza and Rapivab.

Antiviral drugs can be used for influenza treatment and for post-exposure and seasonal influenza prevention in order to reduce healthcare costs and morbidity and mortality from influenza.

Pharmacies are bracing for an increased demand for antiviral medications even as health officials warned that the drugs, designed for treating and preventing influenza, should be used judiciously.

The authors identified a total of 26 trials that evaluated antiviral drugs used in both low and high doses in 11,897 patients. Of the total patients, 52.9% (n=6294) were male and the mean (SD) age ...

How to protect your children from the growing flu epidemic 02:43. In a press conference held Friday, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, urged more widespread use of antiviral drugs to help ...

The Food & Drug Administration just announced that they had approved the aptly-named Xofluza, the first new antiviral drug in two decades, to help alleviate the symptoms of a flu infection.

The main way to reduce the duration of a flu infection is to take antiviral medications, meaning drugs specifically designed to combat viral infections, Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of medicine ...

Creative Diagnostics has announced its comprehensive suite of services for Influenza Antiviral Drug Screening and Evaluation. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, May 24 ...

Antiviral drugs available for the prevention and treatment of influenza include neuraminidase inhibitors (e.g., oseltamivir and zanamivir) and amantadates (e.g., amantadine and rimantadine).