{"id":948,"date":"2014-04-09T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=948"},"modified":"2014-04-19T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:23:47","slug":"have-you-ever-wanted-to-have-a-dog-that-never-grew-up-a-dog-that-was-permanently-a-puppy-you-get-to-have-the-fun-of-watching-it-explore-and-discover-the-world-around-it-from-bathtime-to-their-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/have-you-ever-wanted-to-have-a-dog-that-never-grew-up-a-dog-that-was-permanently-a-puppy-you-get-to-have-the-fun-of-watching-it-explore-and-discover-the-world-around-it-from-bathtime-to-their-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamiflu &#038; Relenza: how effective are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_951\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/320px-Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"size-full wp-image-951\" alt=\"During the 2009 swine flu pandemic the United States of America spent more than $1.3 billion dollars stockpiling Tamiflu. (Credit: Alcibiades, Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/320px-Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/320px-Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup.jpg 320w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/320px-Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the 2009 swine flu pandemic the United States of America spent more than $1.3 billion dollars stockpiling Tamiflu. (Credit: Alcibiades, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governments across the world stock-pile flu vaccines and antiviral drugs like Tamiflu (<em>oeltamivir<\/em>) and Relenza (<em>zanamivir<\/em>).\u00a0While vaccines can prevent flu virus, the antiviral drugs\u00a0are only designed to fight an infection that\u2019s already underway.<\/p>\n<p>A new review of 46 clinical trials studies by The Cochrane Collaboration and the British Medical Journal shows that while both antiviral drugs shorten the duration of flu-like symptoms by about half a day. However they do not affect the number of hospitalizations, nor is there evidence that the drugs prevent person-to-person spread of the influenza virus.<\/p>\n<p>The authors now ask government and health policy decision makers if they would choose to stockpile Tamiflu in light of these findings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD008965.pub4\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>The Cochrane Library<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Tom Jefferson,\u00a0The Cochrane Collaboration, Italy<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/crewh21\/mark-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Mark A Jones<\/a>,\u00a0The University of Queensland, Australia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments across the world stock-pile flu vaccines and antiviral drugs like Tamiflu (oeltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir).\u00a0While vaccines can prevent flu virus, the antiviral drugs\u00a0are only designed to fight an infection that\u2019s already underway. A new review of 46 clinical trials studies by The Cochrane Collaboration and the British Medical Journal shows that while both antiviral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[472,51,53],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/320px-Tamiflu_75mg_german_closeup.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}