Doctor fined in case of vaccine fraud
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A Norwalk doctor accused in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years. Doctor Jorge Elias had been charged with billing Medicaid and other
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The US permitted a California doctor to import 400 doses of flu vaccine last month, violating government regulations against purchases of foreign drugs, the Globe and Mail reported.
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Dr Gary McCallum, Washington state, has been accused of giving 55 patients out-of-date flu vaccines. He used last year&#39;s vaccines, says the Medical Quality Assurance Commission of Washington State.
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The Food and Drug Administration has fined the Red Cross an additional $4.6 million for the distribution of "unsuitable blood products," bringing penalties against the organization to more than $19 million in recent years.
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Uganda's ex-Health Minister Jim Muhwezi is charged with embezzlement over a children's vaccines fund.
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Insurer fined Â£1.26m after failing to take reasonable care of policyholders' details
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The drug company will settle claims it overcharged government health programs and improperly enticed doctors to prescribe its drugs.
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A CONVENIENCE store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States from Saudi Arabia and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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Federal health officials said on Thursday that they would investigate reports of price gouging for flu shots in response to a severe national shortage of the influenza vaccine.
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The flu-vaccine shortage has already dredged up folks trying to make a quick buck off the situation. &quot;We are getting a few calls from physicians saying they have been offered a vial of vaccine
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A Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler facing the nation&#39;s first price-gouging lawsuits related to the flu vaccine has a history of charging exorbitant prices for hard-to-find drugs, the
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto doctor accused of co-signing thousands of prescriptions for an Internet pharmacy without seeing patients changed his story several times under heated cross-examination at his disciplinary hearing Thursday.
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A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to illegally distributing steroids and human growth hormone, admitting he paid doctors to write unnecessary prescriptions for hundreds of patients they never met or examined.
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A New Jersey hospital helped thwart an attempted sale of smuggled flu vaccine, authorities said.
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Vaccines for sale online can be dangerous, and sellers could be perpetrating credit card fraud.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. Nov 6, 2004 - The state&#39;s medical quality board has accused a physician of giving outdated flu vaccine to 55 patients.
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A state agency issued an emergency order Thursday that threatens jail time and fines for health care providers caught giving flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.