U.S. Asks States to Probe Flu Vaccine Pricing
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U.S. health officials urged states  on Thursday to investigate reports of price gouging by  companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and  to prosecute offenders.
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New Mexico joined Illinois Thursday in saying it wants to buy flu vaccine from a foreign plant. The states are gambling that the shortage of vaccine might persuade the Food and Drug Administration to take the unusual step of letting a state import a vaccine.
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The state health department is trying to determine how much flu vaccine is in Alabama and how to get it to those most in need. State Health Officer Don Williamson
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is exploring ways to sell its Fluarix flu vaccine in the United States, where supplies have run short this season after Chiron Corp lost a year&#39;s production to contamination.
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U.S. health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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State officials now can track flu vaccine shipments on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention secure Web site. Health officials have been grappling with flu vaccine shortages in recent weeks.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit today against two distributors of the scarce flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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Congress yesterday began investigating whether the US Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the US flu vaccine supply.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit this week against two distributors of the flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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Illinois authorities asked on Monday  for federal approval to import from Europe thousands of doses  of flu vaccine that the state located through its controversial  program to buy cheaper medicines for older Americans.
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Pointing to last year&#39;s early and unusually harsh influenza season, US health officials urged Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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U.S. health officials are talking  with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of  securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when  manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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Pointing to last year's early and unusually harsh influenza season, U.S. health officials urged Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC is in talks with the Food and Drug Administration about selling its Fluarix influenza vaccine in the United States this season because of the expected flu vaccine shortage this year.
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Some poor children in Ohio who qualify for flu shots may have to wait for them because of questions over doctors being reimbursed through a Medicaid program.
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Illinois authorities asked on Monday for federal approval to import from Europe thousands of doses of flu vaccine that the state located through its controversial program to buy cheaper medicines for older Americans.