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 ...

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

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

By the time you read this editorial, the United States will have experienced a biologic attack that likely will have killed at least 36,000 of our fellow countrymen and women. The general public ...

Two antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, are highly effective when given as a preventive measure to reduce the spread of the influenza virus.

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 ...

A group of researchers says delayed treatment of a type of bird flu now spreading on dairy farms in the United States may ...

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 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 ...

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.