FDA probes more drugs in meningitis outbreak
New York -- Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said Monday as they urged doctors to contact patients who...
View ArticleMeningitis outbreak spreads to 18 states with South Carolina case
(Reuters) - The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to tainted steroid medications from a Massachusetts company expanded to 18 states on Thursday with South Carolina reporting its first probable...
View ArticleNew England Compounding Center, Pharmacy Tied To Meningitis Outbreak, Raided...
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Bill Berkrot BOSTON/NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people and...
View ArticleQuestions and answers about the meningitis outbreak tied to steroids
A deadly meningitis outbreak linked to steroid drugs from a Massachusetts pharmacy continues to spread a month after the products were recalled. There have been 312 cases of fungal meningitis or...
View ArticleMore Drugs Linked to Meningitis Outbreak: FDA — October 16, 2012 › (The Blue...
More Drugs Linked to Meningitis Outbreak: FDA Fungal meningitis cases jumped to 231 on Tuesday, along with 2 cases of joint infection October 16, 2012 By Steven Reinberg and Margaret Steele HealthDay...
View ArticleNumber of U.S. meningitis cases from tainted injections tops 300
The number of U.S. cases of meningitis from tainted injections of a steroid medication has reached 304, up 10 from a day earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday....
View ArticleUPDATE 1-More drugs may be linked to US meningitis outbreak-FDA
* FDA says other products may be linked to outbreak * CDC says more than 200 people infected so far * Compant faces multiple investigations (Recasts with new FDA warning, updates number of cases) By...
View ArticleMore Drugs Linked to Meningitis Outbreak: FDA — October 15, 2012 › (The Blue...
More Drugs Linked to Meningitis Outbreak: FDA Investigating reports of fungal infections in 2 heart transplant patients October 15, 2012 By Steven Reinberg and Margaret Steele HealthDay Reporters...
View ArticleFDA: Pharmacy’s other drugs may be causing illness
NEW YORK (AP) – Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any...
View ArticleFeds look at other drugs at pharmacy in meningitis probe
NEW YORK — Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any kind...
View ArticlePharmacy suspends operations after meningitis outbreak
A Massachusetts company that produced a medical compound linked to a multi-state outbreak of a rare form of meningitis has suspended operations, according to a statement from the company. The New...
View ArticleAs Meningitis Outbreak Grows, Chicago Drug Injury Lawyer Calls for Thorough...
Attorney Patrick A. Salvi of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. says he supports an ‘aggressive investigation’ of the Massachusetts pharmacy that is reported to be at the center of an outbreak of...
View ArticleFDA releases list of drugs shipped by shuttered Mass. pharmacy
Patients can check a list released Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration to determine if they received a medication prepared or shipped by a now-closed compounding pharmacy linked to a...
View ArticleFDA says 1,279 facilities received other NECC products
Federal regulators are asking more than 1,200 hospitals, clinics and doctors nationwide to follow up with patients who may be at risk of infection because they received injectable medications made by...
View ArticleFDA: Injectible drugs from Mass. facility suspect
October 15, 2012 -- Updated 1958 GMT (0358 HKT) The New England Compounding Center recalled all its products earlier this month following an outbreak of fungal meningitis. (CNN) -- More issues have...
View Article2 new drugs tied to fungal meningitis outbreak
Vials of the steroid distributed by New England Compounding Center (NECC) - implicated in a meningitis outbreak - are pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters October 14, 2012. The...
View ArticleUS officials find new drugs tied to meningitis outbreak
AFP - US health officials identified two new drugs Monday which may have infected patients with meningitis as they investigate a widening outbreak tied to tainted products from a Massachusetts...
View ArticleNew drugs tied to US meningitis outbreak
US health officials identified two new drugs today which may have infected patients with meningitis as they investigate a widening outbreak tied to tainted products from a Massachusetts pharmacy. The...
View ArticleFDA: More drugs may be linked to meningitis outbreak
Federal regulators broadened their warning to doctors Monday, raising questions about the potential risk of infection from other injectable drugs made by the specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts linked...
View ArticleFDA: Pharmacy's other drugs may be causing illness
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators broadened their warning to doctors Monday, raising questions about the potential risk of infection from other injectable drugs made by the specialty pharmacy in...
View ArticleFDA Warns About Fungal Meningitis In Transplant Patients Who Received NECC...
The FDA said on Monday that it had identified two transplant patients with Aspergillus fumigatus infection who received cardioplegia solution during surgery. The solution was manufactured by the...
View ArticleCriminal investigators visit Massachusetts drug facility
October 17, 2012 -- Updated 1128 GMT (1928 HKT) (CNN) -- Criminal investigators from the Department of Justice and the Food and Drug Administration were at a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company on...
View ArticleMeningitis outbreak expected to escalate as FDA widens investigation
Federal authorities worry of increase in number of cases as two peripheral infections from non-steroid injections reported The New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, behind the...
View ArticleFDA broadens tainted steroid warning to include other drugs - Wire Lifestyle...
LOS ANGELES -- As federal authorities continued to investigate the suspected contamination of a widely distributed painkiller, the Food and Drug Administration warned patients and doctors Monday that...
View ArticleDHHS Announces Additional Cases Related to the National Fungal Meningitis...
Press Release DHHS Announces Additional Cases Related to the National Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Contact: Public Information Office (603) 271-9388 Communicable Disease Control and Surveillance Publish...
View ArticleMeningitis Outbreak: 2 More Drugs Probed
Two other drugs made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) appear to be involved in the fatal meningitis outbreak that has now claimed the lives of 15 people in as many states, the FDA...
View ArticleMore May Be at Risk as U.S. Meningitis Outbreak Widens
More drugs from the pharmacy at the center of a meningitis outbreak may be contaminated, putting additional people at risk of contracting the deadly infection, U.S. regulators said. Any drug meant to...
View ArticleNew drug from MA pharmacy identified for causing meningitis
The United States Food and Drug Administration has identified a possible meningitis case connected with another drug from the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the center of the nationwide...
View ArticleFeds raid Massachusetts lab tied to meningitis outbreak
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others, federal prosecutors...
View ArticleNew Drugs Eyed in Meningitis Outbreak
Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any kind of injection...
View ArticleMore drugs may be linked to meningitis outbreak: FDA
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two other drugs made by the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak may be linked to the disease, U.S. health regulators said on Monday,...
View ArticleAttorneys Elliot Olsen and Fred Pritzker File Lawsuit against Medical...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Attorneys Elliot Olsen and Fred Pritzker filed a lawsuit today against Medical Advanced Pain Specialists (MAPS) on behalf of Traci M. Maccoux, a 23 year old Minnesota...
View ArticleFDA broadens tainted steroid warning to include other drugs
As federal authorities continued to investigate the suspected contamination of a widely distributed painkiller, the Food and Drug Administration warned patients and doctors Monday that additional...
View ArticleMeningitis outbreak 'nowhere near end'
New York - The U.S. meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others is “nowhere near the end,” a top medical expert said on Tuesday, a day after federal...
View ArticlePharmacy linked to meningitis shipped drugs before verifying sterilility,...
NEW YORK — At least 13 times, the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak shipped orders of injectable steroid before it obtained the results of sterility testing,...
View ArticleMeningitis outbreak 'nowhere near the end'
New York - The U.S. meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others is “nowhere near the end,” a top medical expert said on Tuesday, a day after federal...
View ArticleCDC Investigates Largest Outbreak Of Fungal Infections, Linked To Injections
Multiple reports emerged back in September 2012 of meningitis in patients following otherwise routine steroidal injections. As of June 2013, 745 people have been infected and 58 have died – primarily...
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