Keep taking the pills

摘要

Should countries continue to stockpile the flu drug Tamiflu in case there is a pandemic? Until now many governments have been happy to do so. But as stockpiles reach their "replace by" dates, cash-strapped politicians may be having second thoughts. Their uncertainty may be being fuelled by a campaign against Tamiflu (oseltamivir), motivated by the entirely reasonable beef that manufacturer Roche has not released all of its clinical trial data.