Texas Charges Flu Vaccine Distributors with Gouging
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Texas charged two distributors of the  scarce influenza vaccine on Thursday with price gouging, saying  they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000  percent.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Thursday against flu vaccine suppliers ASAP Meds Inc., doing business as Meds-Stat, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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There are concerns in at least two US cities that residents who thought they were getting flu shots may have been injected with something else.
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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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Federal investigators probing the smuggling of flu vaccine into the country have searched a home in Somers Point, and the head of nearby Shore Memorial Hospital said yesterday his hospital was offered the black market inoculations.
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A convenience store owner from South Jersey has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States in an effort to cash in on the national shortage of the inoculations.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is getting a big shipment of flu vaccine from the federal government and drug maker Aventis Pasteur -- but not right away.
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The US flu vaccine shortage has reached a low point. Distributors accross the nation and here in Texas are hiking up prices, taking advantage of the extreme need.
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The state&#39;s medical quality board has accused a physician of giving outdated flu vaccine to 55 patients. Dr. Gary McCallum used a batch of last year&#39;s vaccine, according
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October 22, 2004 -- DALLAS - Texas charged two distributors of the scarce influenza vaccine yesterday with price gouging, saying they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000 percent.
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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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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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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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OCTOBER 21, 2004 - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today sued two flu shot distributors amid a shortage of the vaccine. The suit filed in Houston accuses the companies of offering vials to hospitals in
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The US health secretary asks local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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As the demand for the flu vaccine continues to put pressure on an already scarce supply, price gouging has become a problem. The Attorney General of Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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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.