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Controversies in medicine: the rise and fall of the challenge to Tamiflu

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"One of the biggest recent controversies in medicine involves the effectiveness – or otherwise – of the antiviral drug Tamiflu. Governments around the world have stockpiled the drug for use in severe influenza pandemics, but many have raised doubts about its effectiveness."

Jodie McVernon, Associate Professor, Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia, looks at the evidence of whether stockpiling Tamilflu to help in the event of a flu pandemic was the right decision:

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