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Oseltamivir, zanamivir: inútiles. Antivirales en gripe, sin fundamento.
"Tools for practice", Alberta (Canadá). Vía @rincondesisifo
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*Oseltamivir, zanamivir: useless. Antivirals for flu without evidence.
Tools for practice, from Alberta (Canada).*
http://www.acfp.ca/wp-content/uploads/tools-for-practice/1422996262_tfp131anti-viralsfv2a2.pdf
But see The Lancet
*Oseltamivir in adults with influenza accelerates time to clinical symptom
alleviation, reduces risk of lower respiratory tract complications, and
admittance to hospital, but increases the occurrence of nausea and
vomiting.*
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article
*/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962449-1/abstract*
<http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962449-1/abstract>
-un saludo
-juan gérvas

2015-02-02 10:17 GMT+01:00 Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]>:

> -thanks for your interest, Wouter
> -JAMA paper accept without evidence antivirals
> -yes, flu vaccine and antivirals go hand by hand in its lack of evidence
> -you have excellent evidence at the Cochrane web
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cochranelibrary/search
> -about antivirals, at last FDA has a rational approach, even againts the
> CDC
> http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-t
> he-cdc-and-fda-are-telling-you-two-different-things-about-the-flu/ …
> <http://t.co/X8bmz3HMFl>
> -un saludo
> -juan gérvas
>
> 2015-02-02 10:07 GMT+01:00 Wouter Havinga <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Dear Juan,
>>
>> Does the JAMA article say that there is no evidence for antivirals? (due
>> to paywall I can not read it).
>>
>> If that is the case (and in view of the dedicated website by the BMJ
>> http://www.bmj.com/tamiflu ) is it acceptable that Eurosurveillance
>> publishes an article with in the abstract "Treating influenza with
>> antivirals in addition to prevention with vaccination will be important."
>>
>> http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21023
>>
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