A., set out to use a far-out technique called antisense to develop antiviral drugs.
Early on Merck ambitiously pursued an antiviral cocktail containing four vaccines: two against cancer, two against genital warts.
Frequent updates of the data files associated with antiviral software can protect users from known viruses.
The WHO also has no evidence of widespread resistance to antiviral medication, Fukuda said.
Another antiviral drug, called zanamivir or Relenza, made by GlaxoSmithKline, is also effective against swine flu.
Then the AIDS pandemic triggered a cascade of antiviral research, spawning 23 HIV drugs in 15 years.
Most of us are more than ready for a corresponding jump in the sophistication of antiviral software.
Direct antiviral drugs for hep C are only now coming out after over a decade of work.
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It is a general antiviral agent that does not specifically target the hepatitis C virus at all.
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Early on, Merck ambitiously pursued an antiviral cocktail containing four vaccines--two against cancer, two against genital warts.
Most healthy kids over 2 years old get better within a few days without any antiviral medicine.
What we really need are potent antiviral medicines with broad activity against many different strains of pandemic virus.
Already, there are diagnostic tests for the flu strain and effective (though costly) antiviral drugs to treat it.
Interferon helps, despite the nasty side effects, because it works by a general antiviral mechanism that avoids these problems.
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"We're looking at potential here for relatively broadly acting antiviral drugs, " says Hobden.
Antiviral treatment is recommended mostly for people at higher risk of flu complications.
Results of studies combining three or four antiviral drugs at once were presented.
He said that realising squalamine potentially has broad antiviral properties was "immensely exciting".
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The first antiviral didn't emerge until the 1960s, and only four won approval in the next 25 years or so.
More recently he had run antiviral research at Bristol-Myers, helping produce the second-ever HIV drug (Videx, in 1991), and the HIV drug Zerit.
The biotech company revolutionized antiviral treatments for HIV making the drugs bearable and has continued to transform medicine for the lethal disease.
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Clinicians have to identify what strand a patient has so they can be correctly treated with an antiviral or an antibiotic.
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Fukuda praised as "innovative" the decision by Norway to distribute antiviral medication over the counter for a limited period of time.
He noted that Tamiflu, the most commonly used antiviral, can have serious side effects that the CDC did not cite.
At the moment, the best hope is to use broad-spectrum antiviral drugs until a suitable vaccine can be developed and deployed.
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Please consult your physician regarding any questions regarding whether you should be taking antiviral medications if you develop flu like symptoms.
The fund's first investment was in BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, which needed additional funding to pursue clinical trials for its antiviral drug candidate Peramivir.
However, if recent research pays off, doctors may be able to add the antiviral equivalent of broad-spectrum antibiotics to their anti-virus arsenals.
While the commercial antiviral drugs actually target flu viruses, oscillococcinum is a potion based on imaginary notions about health and disease.
All this means that patients already have mutant viral particles inside their bodies that are likely to be resistant to direct antiviral drugs.
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