Auditor targets drugs, native training
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is wasting tens of millions on prescription drugs and its billion-dollar annual investment in native education is actually losing ground, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said yesterday.
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With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.
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An effort that joins major  drugmakers, regulators and academics will be launched on  Thursday to study the genetics of people who develop serious  side effects from prescription drugs.
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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.
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Just as the Enron scandal triggered an overhaul of corporate accounting practices, the nation's prescription drug crisis may prompt a sweeping revamp of the way the Food and Drug Administration ensures drug safety, some say.
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A senior United States drug official last night said he believed at least another five medicines at present on sale needed further scrutiny in the wake of recent health scares.
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Kansas joins three other states in a program that makes lower-cost drugs from abroad available to all residents. BY STEVE PAINTER.
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The report is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nationÂs drug supply and the adequacy of government oversight.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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The state today will kick off a new drug prescription program that could provide as many as 200,000 lower-income people an average cash savings of 20 percent on drug purchases.
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THE GAZETTE. DENVER - Coloradoâs Medicaid program is wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars because the programâs prescription drug system is managed poorly, according to an audit released Monday.
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Auditors will be sent to investigate techniques used by states to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid costs to the U.S. government.
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Scouring remote regions for plants, oils and extracts can yield cures â and big profits â for pharmaceutical companies and indigenous tribes.
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Health passports for athletes, a whistleblowing hotline and quicker sample testing could soon find a role in the fight against doping.
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Discovering channels of funding international terrorism should become one of the key goals for supreme audit institutions especially in countries beefing up transboundary terrorism.
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An effort that joins major drugmakers, regulators and academics will be launched on Thursday to study the genetics of people who develop serious side effects from prescription drugs.
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An innovative drug and alcohol programme using horses is trialled at a hospital in the Borders.