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Interesting Articles About Oseltamivir Controversy[edit]

I'll just leave these here for anyone interested in further reading on the controversy. The second source might be reasonable to add and perhaps even the first (sometimes well-sourced blog material (e.g., SBM) is used in medical articles but I think community discussion would be required before doing so. Regardless, here are the links [1] (well-done EM literature blog covering the controversial data) and [2] (Canadian Family Physician review from University of Alberta assessing the quality of evidence from various systematic reviews including funding, coverage of publication bias, etc). TylerDurden8823 (talk) 07:46, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inline[edit]

... query, here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trade name[edit]

I'm not sure if Fluvir is a trade name of Oseltamivir, as it is explicitly stated that it is a brand name in its corresponding unsourced article on Wikipedia, but I haven't found any external sources that explicitly state that is is brand name. AuroraButterfly (talk) 18:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oseltamivir(TamiFlu) vs EchinaForce(R)[edit]

https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-020-01401-2

Published: 21 September 2020

In a randomized, double-blind, multi-center, non-inferiority clinical trial Echinaforce® was demonstrated to be non-inferior to Oseltamivir in patients with influenza-LIKE illness, i.e. involvement of the lower respiratory tract (cough) and systemic symptoms (e.g. headache, myalgia, fever), and CONFIRMED influenza infection with a non-significant trend towards lower incidence of complications with Echinaforce Hot Drink® compared to Oseltamivir [17].

[17.] Raus K, Pleschka S, Klein P, Schoop R, Fisher P. Effect of an Echinacea-based hot drink versus oseltamivir in influenza treatment: a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, multicenter, noninferiority clinical trial. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp. 2015;77:66–72.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011393X15000053?via%3Dihub

... The Hot Drink version of EchinaForce is mainly water and sucrose, so maybe it's just the sucrose and drinking anything hot helps:

https://www.avogel-company.ch/de/produkte/arzneimittel/echinaforce-hot-drink.php

--ee1518 (talk) 10:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]