Monday, January 12, 2009

Suprise - Wonder Drug Touted as Protection - Isn't!

Drug companies are all about profit and often promise much more than they can deliver. Tamiflu is not the wonder drug is was touted as and it's a good thing that governments did not buy millions of doses.

Learn two things:

1. Drug company greed is main reason health care is so expensive.
2. They will be of little or no help in combating the outbreak of the next pandemic.
clipped from www.philly.com

Early flu strains this season resistant to treatment



 

Tests showing that nearly all early-season flu cases are resistant to the main antiviral drug will likely complicate treatment of the elderly this year and planning for pandemics in the future, health officials said.

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