After long fight, Roche to release all Tamiflu drug data

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After long fight, Roche to release all Tamiflu drug data

LONDON (Reuters) - After a lengthy fight, Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said it had agreed to hand over data from all clinical trials of its best-selling flu drug Tamiflu to a group of outside researchers. Tamiflu has been approved by regulators worldwide and stockpiled by many governments in case of a pandemic, but some scientists claim there is little evidence it works and have lobbied since 2009 for Roche to release all its trial data. Sales of the drug hit close to $3 billion in 2009 due to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, although they have since declined. ...

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