Supplier of Nasal-Spray Flu Vaccine to Offer More Doses
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With serious flu-shot shortages predicted in the United States this coming season, the maker of a costlier nasal-spray vaccine says it will produce another 1 million doses to help ease the shortfall, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday.
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The US health secretary is expected to announce an order for five million more doses of flu vaccine, but it appears they won&#39;t come from Canada.
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The federal government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage. Up to 5 million doses are available from plants in Canada and Germany, but
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Jack Bond&#39;s hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn&#39;t provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though - for a price: as much as $600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs about $80.
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State and local health departments will soon receive additional doses of the much-needed flu vaccine, but health officials say the new shipments won&#39;t be enough to meet the needs of all high-risk patients.
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The government is pressing to buy more flu vaccine despite a slow start to the flu season. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the safety of a portion of
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ATLANTA -- The federal government will announce a plan this week to purchase additional flu shots to help relieve the nation&#39;s shortage, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
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VANCOUVER - The Canadian government has ordered 145,000 extra doses of flu vaccine from ID Biomedical, expected to be delivered sometime next week.
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FluMist maker, MedImmune Inc, says it will deliver an extra one million doses of its nasal spray. American authorities, desperate for flu vaccines are extremely grateful - their shortfall, however, is still over 40 million doses.
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US officials say manufacturer Aventis Pasteur can produce another 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine, but the shipment won&#39;t arrive in America until January.
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A Maryland company is doing its best to lessen the severity of the flu vaccine shortage. Word that Maryland-based MedImmune would provide an additional one million doses to its previous production level
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When British authorities shut down Chiron Corp.&#39;s manufacturing facility last week, it reaffirmed Tony Holler&#39;s belief that there is room for another supplier of flu vaccine.
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The Bush administration said Thursday it is working to buy another 5 million doses of flu vaccine from manufacturers in Canada and Germany, mixing the ticklish issue of prescription drug imports with the flu shot shortage.
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The FDA approves a new one, boosting the number of doses ready as another flu season approaches
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that flu vaccine maker Aventis Pasteur will be able to deliver 2.8 million more vaccine
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Federal health officials said Monday that senior citizens should not panic over the availability of flu vaccine because more doses soon will be shipped nationwide.
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MedImmune Inc. will deliver another 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray flu vaccine to help ease a US shortage, after restarting a Philadelphia plant, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said.