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In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he has signed an executive order allowing people displaced by Sandy to go to any "approximate polling place," sign an affidavit add cast their votes for president, U.S. Senate or other races that would have been on the ballot in their own precincts.
"We want everyone to vote," Cuomo said. "Just because you're displaced doesn't mean you should be disenfranchised."
Germany's Merck halts supply of cancer drug to Greek hospitals
FRANKFURT, Nov 3 (Reuters) - German pharmaceuticals firm Merck KGaA is no longer delivering cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, a spokesman said on Saturday, the latest sign of how an economic and budget crisis is hurting front line public services.
Drugmakers raised concerns with EU leaders earlier this yearover supplies to the euro zone's crisis-hit southern half and Germany's Biotest in June was the first to stop shipments to Greece because of unpaid bills.
Publicly-owned hospitals in some countries worst hit by theeuro zone debt crisis had been struggling to pay their bills, Merck's chief financial officer, Matthias Zachert, was quoted as saying by German paper Boersen-Zeitung in an interview on Saturday. He said however that the only country where Merck had stopped deliveries was Greece.
"It only affects Greece, where we have been faced with many problems. It's just the one product," he told the paper.
A spokesman for the company told Reuters that the drug concerned was Erbitux and that ordinary Greeks can still purchase it from pharmacies.
Some countries have taken action to pay bills, such as in Spain, where the government has said it will help hospitals topay off debts.
"That has improved things, even though the situation should still be regarded as critical for the coming years," Zachertsaid.
Erbitux is Merck's second best-selling prescription drug, bringing in sales of 855 million euros ($1.1 billion) in 2011from treating bowel cancer and head and neck cancer.($1 = 0.7785 euros) (Reporting by Frank Siebelt and Victoria Bryan; editing by Patrick Graham)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/03/greece-drugs-idUSL5E8M30ZL20121103
