2 states want to buy flu vaccine from Europe
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New Mexico joined Illinois Thursday in saying it wants to buy flu vaccine from a foreign plant. The states are gambling that the shortage of vaccine might persuade the Food and Drug
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The governors of Illinois and Wisconsin on Monday launched the first state-sponsored program to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from both Europe and Canada &#151; despite federal laws banning prescription drug importation.
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U.S. health officials are talking  with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of  securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when  manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich says his administration has negotiated a tentative agreement to purchase flu vaccinations from British wholesalers, but federal regulators must approve the deal.
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The government is purchasing as many as 5 million additional doses of flu vaccine from plants in Canada and Germany to help relieve the US shortage.
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New York City joined Illinois' effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though U.S. regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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New Mexico and Illinois want to partner up and head over the border to snatch up more flu vaccines - the German border, that is. Gov.
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The Food and Drug Administration will announce next week whether flu vaccine can be imported from Europe and Canada to bolster dwindling US supplies.
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Illinois and Wisconsin have joined forces to launch the country&#39;s first program that allows the residents of Illinois and Wisconsin to purchase lower cost prescriptions from wholesalers in Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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United States health officials, taking another step to ease the season's flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to four million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a ...
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Dec 7, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The federal government is buying 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine made in Germany to augment the strained US supply, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
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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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Federal health officials could import up to 5.2 million additional flu vaccine doses from Canada and Germany to help mitigate an unexpected national flu vaccine supply shortage if manufacturing facilities in those countries pass FDA inspections, HHS
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PHILADELPHIA -- GlaxoSmithKline 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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With flu vaccine shortages, some companies administering the vaccine are selling it at exorbitant prices. Two such cases from Grant and Pierce counties have been filed with the Washington State Attorney General&#39;s office.
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New Mexico joined Illinois Thursday in saying it wants to buy flu vaccine from a foreign plant. The states are gambling that the shortage of vaccine might persuade the Food and Drug Administration to take the unusual step of letting a state import a vaccine.
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The Bush administration said Thursday it is working to buy another 5 million doses of flu vaccine from manufacturers in Canada and Germany, mixing the ticklish issue of prescription drug imports with the flu shot shortage.