Tamiflu: "A nice little earner"

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jack, Andrew ^a  

^a The Financial Times   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR; PERAMIVIR; ZANAMIVIR;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FUNDING; HUMAN; LICENSING; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHELF LIFE;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OSELTAMIVIR; PANDEMICS;

EID: 84898655743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g2524     Document Type: Article

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