Antiviral drugs are prescription medications that may help prevent flu complications or shorten the severity and duration of the flu once you have it. Here are the latest antiviral drug ...

Hospitalized flu patients given the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) are less likely to die in the hospital, be released ...

Antiviral drugs commonly used to treat non-severe influenza appeared to have little or no effect on key clinical outcomes, ...

A new study has found that a single dose of an antiviral drug called baloxavir marboxil can lower the chances of passing the ...

Live Science spoke with two experts to find out. The main way to reduce the duration of a flu infection is to take antiviral medications, meaning drugs specifically designed to combat viral ...

A new Nashville-led study shows that only half of children hospitalized for the flu receive recommended antiviral medications. Dr. James Antoon, assistant professor of Pediatrics at Monroe Carell ...

But promising alternatives are scarce, said Pavia. And largely because antiviral flu drugs haven’t been terribly profitable for drug companies, he said, there are few treatments in the pipeline.

New York State’s stockpile of antiviral medications for flu contains only one drug, Tamiflu, leaving no fallback plan. By Joseph Goldstein New York’s plan for confronting bird flu if it begins ...