British, US officials meet on flu vaccine
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LONDON -- Stunned US health officials met with British regulators yesterday to discuss the suspension of flu vaccine production that has slashed supplies across the United States and planned to inspect the British factory to see whether any impounded vaccine could be salvaged.
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The Department of Health is to consider vaccinating children in England against chickenpox.
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The US shortage of flu vaccine has been so troublesome to health officials that the World Health Organization has called a summit to help prevent it from happening again.
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US health regulators say they found quality-control problems at a flu vaccine factory in Liverpool, England, in June 2003 but did not begin a full inspection of the plant again
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Three US government bodies are investigating why the United States is lacking about half the flu vaccines it needs this winter. Congress, the Justice Department and the Securities
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As the nation prepared for a severe shortage of flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday that problems at the British plant that manufactured vaccine withheld by British authorities likely will be used as a "test case" to lobby for better information-sharing with European regulators.    Last Tuesday, British authorities blocked Chiron Corp...
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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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LONDON - U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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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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The decision by British authorities  to suspend the license of a major influenza vaccine  manufacturer just before the vaccine was to be shipped shows a  need for better communication, acting FDA chief Dr. Lester  Crawford said on Monday.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. Officials of the Chiron corporation plan to testify before Congress about the manufacturing problems in a British factory preventing the company from releasing its flu vaccine to the public.
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The US faces a flu vaccine shortage after British health authorities on Tuesday suspended the license of one of two key makers of influenza vaccine in the country.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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Officials from Virginia and the District said yesterday they need better cooperation from federal agencies to ensure that medicine is rushed to key government employees during a pandemic flu outbreak.
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U.S. and British drug regulators met  Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in  northern England that has triggered an international vaccine  shortage -- but there was no immediate resolution of the  crisis.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit meeting next week for flu vaccine-makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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ATLANTA -- A top US health official on Monday told senior citizens and other &quot;at-risk&quot; groups to relax about the flu vaccine shortage.