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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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is getting a big shipment of flu vaccine from the federal government and drug maker Aventis Pasteur -- but not right away.
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A Florida drug distributor accused of  price gouging has agreed to stop buying and selling flu  vaccines and will hand over its remaining inventory, totaling  about 50 doses, the attorney general said on Wednesday.
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U.S. health officials urged states  on Thursday to investigate reports of price gouging by  companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and  to prosecute offenders.
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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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Oct. 14, 2004 - Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Fort Lauderdale drug wholesaler accused of overcharging for the flu vaccine is turning over its vaccine inventory.
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A convenience store owner from South Jersey has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States in an effort to cash in on the national shortage of the inoculations.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Florida Attorney General&#39;s office calls it &quot;raw exploitation.&quot; It&#39;s accusing a Fort Lauderdale company of jacking up the price of flu vaccine to unconscionable heights.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Thursday against flu vaccine suppliers ASAP Meds Inc., doing business as Meds-Stat, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Cancer drug distributors are trying to charge storage and handling fees to the makers of the drugs, a move some consumer groups worry could undermine parts of the Medicare prescription benefit law meant to curb pricing abuses.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. Nov 6, 2004 - The state&#39;s medical quality board has accused a physician of giving outdated flu vaccine to 55 patients.
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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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The Harris County Hospital District is hoping it can snag a few thousand of the 24 million doses of flu vaccine that haven&#39;t been shipped by vaccine maker Aventis Pasteur.
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The Florida Attorney General&#39;s Office filed a price-gouging lawsuit Wednesday against a Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler accused of capitalizing on the recent flu vaccine shortage by selling vials of it at an exorbitant price.
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CAMDEN, New Jersey -- A convenience-store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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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.