News tagged with steroid injections
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Look beyond drug makers to avoid tragedies like meningitis outbreak, expert says
(Medical Xpress)—A Purdue University medication safety expert said it is important to look at the larger system surrounding medication use, as well as the facilities where drugs are made to avoid tragedies like the meningitis ...
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Oct 17, 2012 |
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Investigators visit Mass. firm in meningitis case
(AP)—Criminal investigators from the Food and Drug Administration have visited a Massachusetts company whose steroid medication has been linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Experts list many ways funguses can taint drugs
(AP)—Experts say there are many ways funguses could have gotten inside the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of the deadly U.S. outbreak of fungal meningitis.
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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US warns meningitis cases could rise
US authorities have managed to contact most of the thousands of people exposed to the tainted drug blamed for a meningitis outbreak that has killed 14, but warned the number of infections could rise.
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Oct 12, 2012 |
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Another meningitis scare emerges, targeting NYC's gay men
(HealthDay)—As a nationwide outbreak of steroid-linked meningitis grabs headlines, health officials in New York City say a separate, unrelated outbreak is hitting gay and bisexual men.
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Oct 11, 2012 |
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Steroid-related meningitis cases now total 91, CDC says
(HealthDay)—The number of meningitis cases linked to apparently contaminated steroid injections has risen to 91 in nine states, and the number of deaths remains at seven, U.S. health officials reported ...
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Oct 08, 2012 |
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7 dead in spreading US meningitis outbreak
At least seven people have died and 91 have fallen ill in the United States in a worsening meningitis outbreak tied to a contaminated drug, updated figures showed Sunday.
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Oct 08, 2012 |
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US pharmacy linked to outbreak issues wide recall
(AP)—The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products, calling the move a precautionary measure.
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Oct 07, 2012 |
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US clinics rush to warn of tainted steroid; 5 dead
(AP)—Health providers scrambled to notify patients in nearly two dozen U.S. states that the steroid injections they received for back pain may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis. Five ...
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Oct 05, 2012 |
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Rare US fungal meningitis outbreak grows; 5 dead (Update)
(AP)—A fifth person has died in a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five U.S. states.
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Oct 04, 2012 |
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Rare US fungal meningitis outbreak grows; 5 dead (Update)
(AP)—A fifth person has died in a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five U.S. states.
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Oct 03, 2012 |
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Etanercept - genetically engineered compound for back pain - falls short: study
Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard ...
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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Steroid injections prove effective in treatment of lumbar disc herniations
The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in ...
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Feb 11, 2012 |
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Researchers find epidural steroid injections do not benefit spine patients
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections ...
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Costly diagnostic MRI tests unnecessary for many back pain patients
(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays ...
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Dec 16, 2011 |
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