Docs doubt Tamiflu can stop severe illness

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Doctors query ability of Tamiflu to stop severe illness

Review published in British Medical Journal accuses flu drug manufacturer Roche

of withholding evidence from trials

* Boseley, health editor

* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 December 2009 19.00 GMT

Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, has made it impossible for scientists to

assess how well the anti-flu drug stockpiled around the globe works by

withholding the evidence the company has gained from trials, doctors alleged

today .

A major review of what data there is in the public domain has found no evidence

Tamiflu can prevent healthy people with flu from suffering complications such as

pneumonia...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/08/tamiflu-swine-flu-roche