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The Tamiflu Timeline
A timeline of key links and articles, in response to the drugs company Roche not publishing all clincal trial data on Tamiflu.
- 10th April 2013
Prescribed #Tamiflu this flu season? Is there GOOD evidence for it? #Cochrane has something to say. #journalclub cochrane.org/features/neura…- 5th April 2013
- 4th April 2013"The Cochrane group has cautiously welcomed the move, pointing out that Roche has previously promised access to data. MacLean’s email follows GlaxoSmithKline’s decision to release 30 clinical study reports on its influenza drug zanamivir (Relenza) to the same Cochrane group. The group is concerned, however, that data redaction and other problems may make analysis and interpretation impossible." Deborah Cohen, BMJ
Roche offers researchers access to all Tamiflu trials | BMJ
More than three years after the Cochrane Collaboration first asked Roche for the full clinical study reports for its influenza drug oselt...
3 yrs after being asked Roche offers researchers results for all Tamiflu trials. bit.ly/ZBOAi2 Will they now sign up to #AllTrials?- "It shouldn't have taken the researchers years of persistence and publicity to get these Tamiflu results," Sile Lane, director of campaigns at Sense about Science.
After long fight, Roche to release all Tamiflu drug dataLONDON (Reuters) - After a lengthy fight, Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said it had agreed to hand over data from all clinical trials ...- 15th February 2013"The review reported a large effect on mortality. Yet, get this, the mortality result was based on only three studies. Three studies and you are on the essential medicines list, that can’t be right?" Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Observational data for Tamiflu effects just doesn't add up - www.carlheneghan.comThe reason no one sticks to the results of randomized trials is that they believe the dramatic effects observed in observational studies....
@juliaoftoronto:Canadian agency responds to pandemic planning bit.ly/12EDWJJ thoughts on the observational data tinyurl.com/conztsl- Observational data for Tamiflu effects just doesn’t add up - tinyurl.com/conztsl (via @cebmblog)
- 29th January 2013
- 28th January 2013
Tamiflu's effectiveness is now the center of debate - Tampa Bay TimesBy Letitia Stein, Times Staff Writer In Print: Monday, January 28, 2013 In just the past few years, fears of deadly flu pandemics have tu...- 17th January 2013
- "Last month, during peak flu hysteria, the Public Health Agency of Canada made an announcement: that it would release a bunch of the influenza drug Tamiflu from the emergency national stockpile to ensure all Canadians who needed the medication had access. The release was suspect for one key reason: it did not reflect any of the doubts and questions that have been raised by the international research community about Tamiflu, namely, recent high-quality studies that show the medicine may not be as effective as the drug-maker claims." Julia Belluz, http://www2.macleans.ca/science-ish/
Tamiflu takedown: researchers ask Canada's public health agency the tough questionsUnpredictable, wily, erratic: If the seasonal flu were a person, he would be Charlie Sheen. In any given year, the U.S. Centers for Disea...- 15th January 2013
Forbes.com (US) summarizes key points of 2012 #Cochrane Review of unpublished data on Tamiflu & Relenza: ow.ly/gJe6Y
The Myth of Tamiflu: 5 Things You Should Know - ForbesTamiflu (Photo credit: ahisgett) Influenza-like-illness is sweeping the country with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reporti...
