Tamiflu does not work against the flu?

After suspecting that Tamiflu had no effect on flu prevention, the UK's leading medical magazine, BMJ, asked Roche's drug manufacturer to publish data about the drug publicly.

Tamiflu is stockpiled in many countries around the world to prevent pandemic flu and is widely used in the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

On Monday, the leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen, Peter Gotzsche called on European governments to sue Roche. He asked everyone to boycott Roche products and said that countries need to take legal action against Roche to reclaim the money in vain for Tamiflu.

Last year, Tamiflu was one of the top drugs that the World Health Organization (WHO) encouraged countries and charitable organizations to buy.

Tamiflu is suspected to have no therapeutic effect.

In 2009, the Cochrane scientists were tasked with assessing the effectiveness of Tamiflu. After a period of research, they found no evidence that Tamiflu reduced the number of complications in people with influenza. So the British Medical Journal and researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Center asked Roche to provide documents about Tamiflu.

In an editorial last month, editor Fiona Gotzsche of the British Medical Journal wrote: Roche had promised to publicize internal documents for each Tamiflu trial but eventually Roche swallowed.

As for Roche, they assumed that they had complied with all legal requirements for data disclosure and had provided Gotzsche and his colleagues more than 3,200 pages of documents to answer their questions. Roche also confirmed that it has sent clinical research data to national health organizations according to their various requirements so that they can conduct independent analysis. However, Roche data cannot be disclosed due to legal and confidentiality regulations. So scientists did not agree to sign the security agreement, so Roche could not provide the data requested by scientists.

Currently, the European Medicines Agency is investigating Roche about not reporting side effects, even the deaths of 19 drugs including Tamiflu.