U.S. Asks States to Probe Flu Vaccine Pricing
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U.S. health officials on Thursday  urged state attorneys general to fully investigate reports of  price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of  influenza vaccine and fully prosecute offenders.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation's supply of flu vaccine.
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Description: Congress will hold hearings to determine how the nation wound up facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. About 40 million doses -- roughly half the anticipated US supply -- were impounded in Great
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State health officials will now be allocating flu vaccines as high-risk individuals seek out the remaining supply of shots, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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U.S. health officials on Thursday urged state attorneys general to fully investigate reports of price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and fully prosecute offenders.
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Amid an unprecedented shortage of flu vaccine, pharmacists at several Massachusetts hospitals say that suppliers have offered to sell them shots in recent days for as much as $90 a dose, more than 10 times the normal price.
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Pointing to last year's early and  unusually harsh influenza season, U.S. health officials urged  Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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Illinois authorities asked on Monday for federal approval to import from Europe thousands of doses of flu vaccine that the state located through its controversial program to buy cheaper medicines for older Americans.
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The government is pressing to buy more flu vaccine despite a slow start to the flu season. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the safety of a portion of
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U.S. officials are turning to vaccine providers to share their supplies and urging the public to save vaccines for those who need it most.
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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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October 22, 2004 -- DALLAS - Texas charged two distributors of the scarce influenza vaccine yesterday with price gouging, saying they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000 percent.
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Pointing to last year's early and unusually harsh influenza season, U.S. health officials urged Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit today against two distributors of the scarce flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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U.S. health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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HOUSTON -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit against two distributors of the scarce flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.