Senators promise drug importation push
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U.S. senators vowed on Wednesday to move forward with legislation to legalize the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from certain countries, despite resistance from regulators and drugmakers.
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Opponents of importing prescription drugs from Canada are introducing a new argument to the debate with studies that say it would wipe out thousands of jobs in states like Massachusetts that depend on pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
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Americans would be allowed to carry   into the United States small quantities of prescription drugs   they buy in Canada under a tentative deal approved by   congressional negotiators.
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The pharmaceutical industry, fighting to defeat proposals that would give U.S. patients easier access to cheaper Canadian drugs, is making the most of its chance for face time with lawmakers at the GOP convention...
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Some U.S. Senate Republicans voiced  reservations on Thursday about a bill designed to stop drug  makers from striking deals to restrict the introduction of  cheaper generic drugs.
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Missouri is joining Illinois and Wisconsin in importing prescription drugs from Canada, Britain and Ireland. Gov. Bob Holden appeared at a news conference with Illinois Gov.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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Allowing imported drugs from Canada, as the Montgomery County Council is considering, is a potentially dangerous decision based on politics and economics rather than on established pharmaceutical best practices [letters, Aug. 7].
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The country&#39;s provincial and territorial health ministers forged ahead today with their push for a multibillion-dollar national pharmacare program despite continuing rejection of the idea from Ottawa.
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Makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx and the FDA are the subject of Senate scrutiny today...and an Iowa Senator is asking the tough questions.
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Members of the American Medical Association&#39;s House of Delegates during an annual meeting in Atlanta on Sunday debated whether to endorse the reimportation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and some other nations, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle
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Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton of  New York and Henry Waxman of California will introduce  legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug  Administration the legal authority to approve cheaper, generic  versions of biotech drugs known as biologics, the lawmakers  said.
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Under a new Senate bill, companies that want to import goods into the U.S. would have to get a government certificate.
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Democratic governor says state must act to help citizens purchase cheaper drugs from Canada, Europe.
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Pfizer Inc. , Merck &amp; Co. , and fellow drug makers thought Republican congressional majorities and President Bush's reelection created a firewall against legal prescription drug imports. The wall is starting to crack.
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Senators urging the passage of a bill that would legalize millions of illegal immigrants hope to revive bipartisan support for the embattled measure and push it to passage by week's end.
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WASHINGTON  - The Illinois governor's ambitious plan to help that state's residents buy prescription drugs from the United Kingdom also may permit drug imports from Europe's developing countries, the Food and Drug Administration fears.