A congressional report on the specialty pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak has faulted state and federal regulators for failing to address serious safety concerns at the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A report by bipartisan staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which met Thursday to examine the issue, concluded that regulators knew of problems ...
continue reading...A brain-damaged man previously thought incapable of cognitive thought has managed to convey that he’s not in pain, thanks to a technique developed by a neuroscientist.
An ABC News report details the case of Scott Routley, a 39-year-old man who suffered brain injury after a car accident 12 years ago. Since then, Routley has been unable to speak or move, even to follow objects with his eyes.
Doctors had previously thought him to be in a vegetative ...
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Patients who go on low-dose daily aspirin appear to be at lower risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots, according to a story in U.S. News and World Report.
The story concerns a study in which researchers combined the results of a small study with those of a similar trial, so that the combined data was large enough to test for trends. The combined study indicated that daily aspirin could ...
continue reading...U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports have linked the highly caffeinated energy drink 5-Hour Energy with 13 deaths and more than 30 hospitalizations over the past four years, the New York Times reports.
Last month, FDA reports surfaced linking another energy drink, Monster Energy, with five deaths.
According to the story, the New York Times reviewed FDA reports revealing that 5-Hour Energy has been mentioned in about 90 filings with the agency since 2009. More than 30 of them involved serious or ...
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According to the Mayo Clinic, dealing with traumatic brain injury in children can present distinct challenges. That’s because infants and young children may lack the communication skills to report symptoms connected to the condition, such as headaches, sensory problems and confusion.
So adults may have to look out for external symptoms linked to traumatic brain injury in children. The Mayo clinic recommends taking a child to a doctor if he or ...
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The co-owner of a specialty pharmacy responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak refused to talk to members of a congressional panel that discussed the issue on Wednesday, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune.
The New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts produced the contaminated steroid medication that has triggered 461 cases of fungal meningitis and killed 32 people. The story says those numbers will likely increase, ...
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