antiviral drugs

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) The two main ways to prevent and control influenza today are annual immunization and antiviral drugs.

A team of investigators has found that statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, may offer an additional treatment to complement these approaches and reduce mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza.

The findings are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online.

There are no recommended antiviral drugs for treatment of a form of viral conjunctivitis called pinkeye that is highly contagious.

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) When a team of European researchers sought to discover how a class of antiviral drugs worked, they looked in an unlikely place: the sugar dish.

A new research report appearing in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that a purified and modified form of a simple sugar chain may stop fast-acting and deadly viruses, such as Ebola, Lassa, or Marburg viruses, in their tracks.

(University of Pennsylvania) The mechanism by which a herpes virus invades cells has remained a mystery to scientists, but now researchers reveals the unusual structure of a key member of the protein complex that allows a herpes virus to invade cells.

The new map details an essential piece of the herpes virus "cell-entry machinery," providing scientists with a new target for antiviral drugs.

(University of Michigan Health System) Antiviral drugs have reduced AIDS to more of chronic disease rather than a death sentence, but why is the disease so hard to cure?

A study published online March 7 in Nature Medicine shows bone marrow, previously thought to be resistant to the virus, can contain latent forms of the infection.

Targeting these reservoirs of latent cells may open the door to new treatments, according to scientists at the University of Michigan Health System.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- The first clinical trial of direct antiviral drugs against hepatitis C virus (HCV) without interferon was a success, researchers said, though the FDA currently won't permit such a strategy in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced contract awards for up to 120,000 treatment courses of intravenous (IV) antiviral drugs to help treat hospitalized 2009 H1N1 influenza patients.

Many state and local governments are not adequately prepared to deal with a surge of patients in a flu pandemic or quickly distribute vaccine and antiviral drugs, according to two reports by federal investigators being released on Monday.

Extending the period of treatment with antiviral drugs after a kidney or pancreas transplant is a cost-effective way to prevent cytomegalovirus infections that often lead to devastating consequences.

The federal government should expedite the availability of a vaccine against swine flu, clarify how antiviral drugs should be used to fight the pandemic and designate someone at the White House to coordinate the nation's response to the virus, a presidential panel recommended Monday.