CDC Missing $22 Million in Equipment
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There's a mystery at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention involving the disappearance of more than $22 million in equipment.  The missing items range from new Dell and Compaq computers to scientific equipment.
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WASHINGTON Twenty (b) billion dollars. That&#39;s the estimated cost in lost productivity due to this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage.
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This year's flu vaccine shortage could cost the nation up to &#36;20 billion in lost productivity &#151; almost twice as much as in a typical year &#151; depending on the severity of the outbreak, according to one estimate.
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The District wasted nearly $100 million over the past five years overpaying health care contractors for services that many Medicaid patients did not receive, a situation that puts the city in danger of losing federal funding, the D.C. Office of the Inspector General said yesterday.
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A missing piece of the device used to clean the walls of the 800-mile Alaska pipeline could damage sensitive equipment.
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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A $1.2 billion program to deploy new radiation monitors to screen trucks, cars and cargo containers for signs of nuclear devices has been delayed by questions over whether Department of Homeland Security officials misled Congress about the effectiveness of the detectors.
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NEW YORK, NY -- OCTOBER 29 -- When the New York Times reported on Monday (10/25/04) that over 300 tons of high-explosive materials appeared to be missing from an Iraqi weapons facility, it was no surprise that the Bush administration and conservative
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped yet to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to
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The Department of Veterans Affairs did not spend all of the extra $300 million it budgeted to increase mental health services and failed to keep track of how some of the money was used, a government report says.
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The U.S. has provided Myanmar with $600,000 worth of equipment for bird flu prevention after fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 virus were discovered on poultry farms, state media said Sunday.
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Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion effort to expand the nationÂs medical stockpile, has largely failed to deliver, critics say.
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One day after officials with the NC Division of Public Health released a draft plan for dealing with an influenza pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported there would be a shortage of flu vaccines this year.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar
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In an Aug. 26. story about the recall of a medical device used to measure carbon dioxide in patient&#39;s blood, the Associated Press included incorrect information provided by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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Respiratory ailments, mental trauma and other problems that arose after the Sept. 11 attacks are costing the U.S. health care system $393 million per year, according to an analysis that city officials released Tuesday.
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The medical device maker reported a third-quarter loss of $272 million on charges related to acquisitions and asset sales, as the companyâs top-selling stent continued to slump.