When the flu strikes, it can feel relentless: rising fever, hacking cough, stuffy nose and sore throat. For many people, relief can come in the form of Tamiflu, a prescription antiviral medication ...

Antiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in ...

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Influenza is an acute respiratory disease that causes epidemics and pandemics in the human population of temperate regions. Influenza epidemics occur every year during the winter months, affecting ...

Writing for The Conversation, Patrick Jackson, a University of Virginia assistant professor of infectious diseases, highlights the promise of new pills as an effective treatment for those infected by ...

The monkeypox virus is only one mutation away from evading a key antiviral drug being used to treat at-risk patients, federal health officials are now warning — and they're urging doctors to be ...

Influenza A viruses with induced resistance to a new candidate antiviral drug were found to be impaired in cell culture and weakened in animals, according to a new study. Influenza A viruses with ...

President Biden and the First Lady have been prescribed Paxlovid at different times for their mild COVID symptoms First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19. "After testing negative for ...

In the past six weeks, two drugmakers have announced promising clinical trial results for their experimental oral antiviral pills and will soon have their data evaluated by the Food and Drug ...

’Tis the season of the antiviral. In just over a month, two antiviral drugs — both capable of being taken as a pill — have been found to cut COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in clinical trials of ...

A pharmaceutical manufacturer recalled thousands of vials of its COVID-19 antiviral drug remdesivir after an internal investigation found they were contaminated with glass particles. Gilead Sciences ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted Tuesday in favor of recommending molnupiravir, a new antiviral pill made by the drug companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, for treating ...