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Pediatric Tamiflu hard to find as H1N1 increases demand
Jaime Pulfer Toronto | Friday, October 23rd, 2009 7:15 am
Toronto - Tamiflu, the children's anti-viral medication prescribed to battle the flu, seems to be in short supply across the GTA and North America.
And now, some pharmacists are working with what they've got, taking adult doses and making them into children doses.
Roche manufactures the drug and said there's an enormous supply of the adult capsules and they can be converted by pharmacists.
The process is called compounding and is being used by the Hospital for Sick Children.
Pediatric Tamiflu hard to find as H1N1 increases demand
Jaime Pulfer Toronto | Friday, October 23rd, 2009 7:15 am
Toronto - Tamiflu, the children's anti-viral medication prescribed to battle the flu, seems to be in short supply across the GTA and North America.
And now, some pharmacists are working with what they've got, taking adult doses and making them into children doses.
Roche manufactures the drug and said there's an enormous supply of the adult capsules and they can be converted by pharmacists.
The process is called compounding and is being used by the Hospital for Sick Children.
