Roche Tamiflu Prevents Flu In More Than 99% Of Frail Elderly - ICAAC
Executive Summary
Prophylactic use of Roche's Tamiflu (oseltamivir) reduced the incidence of influenza in an elderly nursing home population to less than 1%, according to preliminary results from a once-daily prevention study presented by Frederick Hayden, MD, University of Virginia, Sept. 27 at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco.