News tagged with fungal meningitis
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Mass. pharmacy recalling some compounded products
(AP)—A Massachusetts pharmacy has issued a voluntary recall of some sterile compounding products.
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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Scientists debate CDC recommendations during meningitis outbreak
A pair of commentaries to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy highlight a debate within the public health community surrounding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
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Feb 05, 2013 |
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Survival of 'Obamacare' tops list of biggest health news in 2012
(HealthDay)—With millions of Americans watching and waiting, the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld the Obama Administration's health care reform legislation, making the survival of "Obamacare" this year's ...
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Dec 28, 2012 |
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FDA chief renews push for specialty pharmacy rules
(AP)—The head of the Food and Drug Administration renewed her push for new rules to help police pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak, even as members of Congress expressed little interest ...
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Two-faced drugs fight hidden killers
(Medical Xpress)—An outbreak of fungal meningitis recently resulted in one of the worst public health disasters in recent U.S. history. Thirty-two people died and more than 400 became ill after the New ...
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Dec 11, 2012 |
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Health warning on new round of fungal infections
(AP)—Tennessee health officials are once again alerting patients who received tainted steroid shots after finding that some have infections at the injection site that could lead to fungal meningitis.
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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Consumer watchdog asks FDA to revisit compounders
(AP)—A government watchdog group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to re-inspect more than a dozen specialty pharmacies with prior records of violations, in light of a recent deadly outbreak tied to compounded ...
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Nov 29, 2012 |
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Senate questions pharmacy boards after outbreak
(AP)—A Senate committee investigating a deadly outbreak of meningitis wants to know how regulators in all 50 states oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered the illness.
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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Steroid shots for sciatica: Benefits only brief, analysis finds
(HealthDay)—Spinal steroid injections—the type involved in the current fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States—provide only short-term relief for sciatica-related leg and back pain, according ...
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Nov 13, 2012 |
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Early clinical observations in the fungal meningitis outbreak
A new article being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine describes the diagnosis and treatment protocol established in a Roanoke, Va. hospital to care for dozens of patients presenting with suspected fungal ...
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Nov 12, 2012 |
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Steroid-meningitis toll now 32 dead, 438 sickened, CDC says
(HealthDay)—Thirty-two people have now died and 438 have been sickened in the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Friday.
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Nov 10, 2012 |
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Report details start of steroid meningitis outbreak
(HealthDay)—The first reports of serious fungal infections from tainted steroid injections for back pain came in September from Tennessee and quickly became a national health crisis.
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Nov 07, 2012 |
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Meningitis outbreak toll: 404 cases, 29 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled.
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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FDA: Bacteria found in other products from firm tied to meningitis outbreak
(HealthDay)—Lab tests have found bacteria in two other medical products made by the Massachusetts-based specialty pharmacy at the center of an ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak, U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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FDA: Ameridose issues voluntary recall of all products
(HealthDay)—Ameridose, a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of sterile injectable products and oral syringes, is undergoing a voluntary recall of all unexpired products in circulation, according to an Oct. ...
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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