Bush Task Force Calls Drug Importation Unsafe
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Description: A Bush Administration task force releases a report that finds importing drugs from countries with price-controls offers little savings and introduces safety concerns.
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The country's import-safety system has not kept pace with an increase in foreign goods, a panel appointed by President Bush said yesterday. Federal agencies should do a better job of coordinating oversight, the panel said, though it stopped short of calling for a single agency to oversee imports.
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TORONTO, Jan. 6 -- The Canadian health minister plans to restrict the supply of inexpensive prescription drugs shipped to about 2 million patients in the United States each year, and industry officials here are saying President Bush is behind the move.
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration is saying that commercial importation of some low-cost prescription drugs from Canada might be feasible, but the savings to consumers would be small, and the federal government would have to spend several hundred million
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Description: A government task force is recommending against allowing people to import prescription drugs from other nations. The task force says it would be exceedingly difficult to guarantee that drugs imported
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The Bush administration said Tuesday that commercial importation of some low-cost prescription drugs from Canada might be feasible.
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President Bush said Friday that he was troubled by the report linking many prominent baseball players to performance-enhancing substances.
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HUDSON, Wisconsin (CNN) -- With political pressure mounting to allow imports of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, President Bush appeared to move closer to supporting the idea Wednesday -- but only if the safety of the drugs ...
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So let&#39;s get this straight: it&#39;s not OK to bring prescription drugs into the country from Canada . . . until it is? While the Bush administration has opposed reimportation of drugs from Canada - and Congress
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President Bush on Wednesday  established a high-level government panel to recommend steps to guarantee the safety of food and other products shipped into the United States
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President Bush on Wednesday established a Cabinet-level panel to recommend how to guarantee the safety of imported food and other products brought into the country and how to police them better.
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The Bush administration has again found itself on the wrong side of a hot-button political issue. This time it&#39;s prescription drug importation, which a majority of Americans and members of Congress support.
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Saying they&#39;re concerned about drug safety and the loss of sales, the Connecticut Pharmacists Association has joined with other organizations that oppose importation of prescription drugs.
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Federal drug regulators are "virtually incapable of protecting America" from unsafe drugs, a federal drug safety reviewer told a Congressional panel.
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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President Bush on Wednesday established a high-level government panel to recommend steps to guarantee the safety of food and other products shipped into the United States and to improve U.S. policing of those imports. The White House denied the effort was aimed primarily at China.
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Importing drugs from Canada and other nations where prices are lower wouldn&#39;t generate enough savings for US consumers to justify the risks, regulatory costs or harm to the drug industry, a federal task force found.