More Republicans are backing drug imports
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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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WASHINGTON -- Some influential members of Congress are renewing their pledge to help speed generic versions of the world's most expensive drugs to market.
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WASHINGTON -- Biotechnology lobbyists attempting to slow the development of cheap generic versions of the world's most expensive drugs have been emphasizing questions about their safety in an effort to win support among the new Democratic leaders of Congress.
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WASHINGTON - The 108th Congress soon will be history, a tumultuous two years that, depending on party affiliation, was the best of times or the worst of times.    Of course Republicans, who control both the House and the Senate, expressed pride in a Congress that passed a major Medicare prescription drug bill, gave President Bush the money he needed for Iraq and substantially increased spending for defense and homeland security...
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Concerns over the approval of drugs that turned out to be dangerous have led Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate to call for investigations.
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House Republicans tentatively agreed Thursday to prohibit Customs agents from seizing prescription drugs that Americans buy in Canada and bring back into the United States.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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It is a compelling issue that has the potential to motivate voters on Nov. 2: Prescription drugs will cost Americans an estimated $210 billion this year.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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Missouri on Thursday joined Illinois and Wisconsin in a drug-importation program that helps residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Europe, despite a federal ban on the imports.
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Republicans adopted a platform Monday that rallies behind President Bush's agenda while edging the GOP's social principles further to the right.
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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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Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification technology to protect their US drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
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Despite having left the door open to the possibility of allowing the importation of drugs, yesterday the Bush administration reinforced its opposition to importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.
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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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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.
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U.S. lawmakers and health officials  are moving to give more independence to an office that reviews  drug safety, but some experts say ensuring medicines are  studied after they hit the market is more important than the  bureaucratic pecking order.