Texas Charges Flu Vaccine Distributors with Gouging
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Texas charged two distributors of the scarce influenza vaccine on Thursday with price gouging, saying they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000 percent.
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Federal prosecutors have charged three pharmacists and two doctors with selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drug samples that were supposed to have been given to patients for free.
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Attorney General Greg Stumbo yesterday asked Kentuckians to be alert for possible price gouging by either distributors or providers of flu vaccine.
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State officials have located 30,000 doses of flu vaccine by tapping into pharmacies and wholesalers within the new I-SaveRx program.
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CHICAGO -- Four doctors indicted on federal charges of swindling insurance companies out of more than $1.5 million are accused of using unqualified people to prepare hundreds of allergy shots, and of giving them to patients under unsanitary conditions.
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A Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler facing the nation&#39;s first price-gouging lawsuits related to the flu vaccine has a history of charging exorbitant prices for hard-to-find drugs, the
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The audacious wholesale flu vaccine prices of recent days can be blamed on three factors, experts say -- shortages, intense demand by a jittery public and some drug wholesalers eager to exploit the situation.
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A Fort Lauderdale drug wholesaler accused by the state of overcharging for flu vaccine is turning over its vaccine inventory to the government and will no longer buy or sell it.
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Concerned health officials began  investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine  plant where half the U.S. flu shots were made, and called on  more companies to get into the vaccine business.
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â¢ Some health experts are blaming the federal government for relying on just two companies to supply all of the nationâs flu vaccine, since any glitch was bound to have dire effects.
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TOPEKA, Kan. -- The attorney general&#39;s office announced a settlement with a Florida company that was sued for allegedly overinflating the price of flu vaccine.
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Attorney General Phill Kline has filed a lawsuit against a Florida company that he says tried to gouge a Kansas City, Kansas, pharmacy for flu vaccine.
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A state agency issued an emergency order Thursday that threatens jail time and fines for health care providers caught giving flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.
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A CONVENIENCE store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States from Saudi Arabia and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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A black-market flu-shot smuggler who tried to exploit the nation&#39;s vaccine shortage is on the lam after trying to sell thousands of illegal doses to a New Jersey hospital, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
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US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson has urged local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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Flu vaccine distributors are facing lawsuits for price gouging and &quot;unconscionable&quot; misleading acts of business. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed against two