Texas governor defends vaccine order
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that 11- and 12-year-old girls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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Texas officials argue that a new rule to disclose the size of their health care obligation to retirees does not apply to their state.
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 6--Molly Ivins sure would have enjoyed this Monday morning in Texas.   The governor came out against cervical cancer, and some conservatives still pitched a wall-eyed fit.
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By Victoria Advocate, Texas  Sep. 3--Gov. Rick Perry's lack of commitment to preserving Texas state  parks was underscored by documents the Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently  obtained.
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October 11, 2004 -- Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday blamed political &quot;ideology&quot; for the nation&#39;s dire shortage of flu vaccine, calling on the federal government to decrease its reliance on private drugmakers
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Texas became the first U.S. state to require that all 11- and 12-year-old girls be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, the governor's office said on Friday.
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As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
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NEW YORK --Virginia Governor Tim Kaine plans to sign legislation mandating use of Merck &amp; Co.'s Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine for school-age girls.
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Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline says a Florida company is trying to gouge consumers who fear a vaccine shortage. BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS.
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Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC revealed Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to grant a priority review to its experimental cancer vaccine Cervarix, adding to pressure on the drug maker after controversy surrounding its diabetes drug Avandia.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed a lawsuit against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of selling vials of vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at inflated prices.
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By Chelyen Davis, The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.  Mar. 1--RICHMOND -- Republican legislative leaders yesterday defended  their transportation plan and lashed out at Gov. Tim Kaine, who has said he  will substantially amend it and may veto it.
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The doses came from vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, the company from which the county originally had ordered 2,000 doses. Before Friday, the county had received half that order.
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A group of families has sued in an attempt to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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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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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 15--AUSTIN -- The high cost of the vaccine that protects against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer is becoming a key issue in opposition to Gov. Rick Perry's order that schoolgirls receive the shots.