Baltimore Sun
| 8 months ago
The medical facilities on the new list bought drugs other than preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, an injectable steroid used most often to ease back pain that has been linked to the outbreak. Federal regulators previously only identified...
Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Massachusetts regulators in 2004 proposed a formal reprimand for a company now linked to deadly meningitis outbreak, but they never delivered it after the company protested the reprimand could be "fatal to the business." The sanction by the Board of...
United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Massachusetts pharmacy linked to the meningitis outbreak that sickened 317 and killed 24 didn't use sterile conditions and had dirty floors, inspectors say. A report by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Department...
Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Five people have developed peripheral joint infections after being treated with steroids produced at New England Compounding Center. State officials on Tuesday said they would yank the licenses of three pharmacists and the facility's license to...
Pharmalot
| 8 months ago
While Congress gathers documents and probes the compounding scandal over an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has killed 23 people, a consumer watchdog is calling for the US Health & Human Services Secretary Office of the Inspector General to...
Baltimore Sun
| 8 months ago
The Food and Drug Administration released a new list of more than 3,000 hospitals that bought drugs from the company at the center of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, including 89 facilities in Maryland. The drugs bought by Maryland...
Newswise
| 8 months ago
Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description As the number of fungal meningitis cases continues to rise, physicians across the country are faced with how best to provide the early treatment that can save lives.
