Flu shot purchase contentious
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The Bush administration said Tuesday it intends to buy 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine from a plant in Germany to ease this yearâs shortage.
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The government is seriously considering making commitments to buy a certain number of flu shots each year to help bolster supply and avoid severe shortages like the one now, officials said Thursday.
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TOPEKA - A Florida company has disputed accusations that it tried to sell flu vaccine in Kansas at highly inflated prices. Fort Lauderdale-based ASAP Meds Inc.
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Kansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a pharmaceutical distributor accused of trying to gouge a pharmacy for flu vaccine at more than 1,000 percent the usual cost.
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Attorneys general in Connecticut and Texas have filed suit against ASAP Meds Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for flu-vaccine price gouging.
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The loss of one-half of the nation's expected flu vaccine inventory has sparked widespread public anxiety over where to find remaining vaccine and challenged health providers to get unshipped stocks to those who most need them.
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Flu vaccine distributors are facing lawsuits for price gouging and &quot;unconscionable&quot; misleading acts of business. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed against two
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Florida joins Kansas in taking legal action against a supplier accused of running up prices on the scarce flu vaccine. By JAMIE THOMPSON.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has taken action against two flu shot distributors, ASAP Meds and Dublin Medical, accusing the companies of price gouging during the flu vaccine shortage.
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CAMDEN, New Jersey -- A convenience-store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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Attorney General Greg Stumbo yesterday asked Kentuckians to be alert for possible price gouging by either distributors or providers of flu vaccine.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has become a major social issue in the United States, with thousands of elderly peopleâthose most at risk of life-threatening complications from influenzaâlining
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. Chiron&#39;s (KY-rawn) aggressive plan to dominate the US flu vaccine market is in tatters. The Emeryville-based company&#39;s financial future is clouded now as well as the public health crisis it caused continues to mount.
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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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TORONTO -- Canada&#39;s chief public health officer defended yesterday the right of the country&#39;s flu vaccine manufacturer to sell surplus supply to the United States.
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Amid an unprecedented shortage of flu vaccine, pharmacists at several Massachusetts hospitals say that suppliers have offered to sell them shots in recent days for as much as $90 a dose, more than 10 times the normal price.
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HOUSTON The Texas attorney general says it&#39;s &quot;simply unacceptable&quot; to charge exorbitant prices for flu shots at a time like this.