Lawmaker blames FDA for vaccine shortage
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The ranking minority member of a House committee on Wednesday blasted the Food and Drug Administration, saying it failed to properly address problems that may have led to a shortage of flu vaccine.
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President Bush urged lawmakers on  Wednesday to forgo flu shots at the U.S. Capitol, where nearly  2,000 doses have been given despite government advice to  reserve vaccine for high-risk patients.
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Before he was rebuked by the committee chairman for &quot;screaming at the witness,&quot; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gave the head of the Food and Drug Administration a piece of his mind.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that schoolgirls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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A US government drug-safety scientist told lawmakers that the US Food and Drug Administration is &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against a possible drug catastrophe like Merck&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday that lawmakers on Capitol Hill who received flu shots in his office were either following federal guidelines or their own doctors' recommendations.
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The attending physician for U.S.  lawmakers, their staffs and others who work at the U.S. Capitol  received additional doses of the flu vaccine and is donating  them to city medical officials, top U.S. Republican lawmakers  said on Friday.
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Drug safety measures pending in the House of Representatives may burden regulators without protecting patients from dangerous medicines, a senior Food and Drug Administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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FDA commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach took a tongue-lashing from members of Congress over the way his agency handled Avandia, the diabetes drug from GlaxoSmithKline that has come under scrutiny for alleged heart attack risks.
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Lawmaker impatience is rising over voluntary industry effort to improve food safety.
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Druggist is charging $50 a dose to help Americans deal with the severe vaccine shortage in the States. By Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News.
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An expert with the Food Drug Administration has accused the agency in Congress of having pressed him to withhold results of a study showing potential dangers of the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.
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The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &quot;not a health crisis,&quot; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, and he urged people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.
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INDIANAPOLIS---State Health Commissioner Greg Wilson, MD today issued a proclamation about the influenza vaccine shortage. The Commissioner&#39;s proclamation emphasizes the recommendations for influenza vaccination
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a  Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on  Tuesday.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. Vice President Cheney says the shortage of flu shots in America can be blamed on the threat of lawsuits and the small profit-margin in the vaccine business.
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The chief executive of Chiron Corp. told lawmakers Wednesday that the company first found signs of bacterial contamination in several batches of its flu vaccine in July -- even as it was beginning to ship