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Wednesday 30 September 2015

Controversies in medicine: the rise and fall of the challenge to Tamiflu

http://theconversation.com/controversies-in-medicine-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-challenge-to-tamiflu-38287

This is a fascinating article, it makes one very important point that the Cochrane report reviewed mostly healthy volunteer studies and not those in at risk groups.

A good read.

Dr Rob Lambkin-Williams

Tuesday 8 September 2015

Viral infection: Stemming influenza viruses : Nature Reviews Microbiology : Nature Publishing Group

A key goal in influenza research is the design of a universal flu vaccine that affords protection against multiple viral subtypes. Now, two studies report new vaccination strategies that engineer the stem region of haemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein to elicit antibodies that protect against multiple influenza subtypes in animal models of infection.

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nrmicro3553.html

Tuesday 1 September 2015

Respiratory syncytial virus, an ongoing medical dilemma: an expert commentary on respiratory syncytial virus prophylactic and therapeutic pharmaceuticals currently in clinical trials



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Cheers

Rob

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