Tamiflu, Relenza, and influenza: what the data do (or don’t) tell us

The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and Carl Heneghan from the University of Oxford. We asked them to tell the story behind their recent Cochrane systematic review [1] and dataset in Dryad [2] which holds valuable lessons about the evidence-base on which major public health recommendations are decided.  -TJV

In the late 2000s, half the world was busy buying and stockpiling the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir (Tamiflu, Roche) and zanamivir (Relenza, GSK) in fear of an influenza pandemic………… (Read more at Dryad)