The meningitis outbreak linked to fungus-tainted steroid medication had spread to 47 cases in seven different states as of Oct. 5, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
As of Oct. 5, the death toll was still listed at five.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added Michigan, with four cases, to the list of affected states. There were 29 reported cases in Tennessee; six in Virginia; three in Indiana; two each in Maryland and Florida; and one in ...
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The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) is developing some promising forms of technology to combat traumatic brain injury in U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, Fox News reports.
According to the report: “The mildest form of such injury, known as a concussion, is a problem familiar with sports fans. But military medical experts often refer to traumatic brain injury, or TBI, as the signature injury from Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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continue reading...A meningitis outbreak has spread to five states – sickening 26 people and killing four, according to a story in USA Today.
Investigators believe the condition, a potentially deadly inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, was likely caused by a fungus-tainted steroid medication commonly injected to treat back pain. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration identified the steroid manufacturer as the New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.
According to the story, 18 of ...
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Pharmaceutical companies and public health advocates worldwide are keeping an eye on a legal case in India, in which pharmaceutical giant Bayer is appealing a decision by the Indian patent controller to override the company’s monopoly on its cancer drug Nexavar.
If upheld, the decision will allow an Indian company to produce and sell the drug for the equivalent of $173 U.S. dollars a month, the Financial Times reports.
Bayer’s pricing would ...
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The Saginaw News reports that crews demolishing a building in Saginaw, Michigan, discovered asbestos covering the structural steel.
Removal of the asbestos from a onetime shopping mall called the Saginaw Centre will add an estimated $800,000 to a project already budgeted at $4.8 million.
According to the report, the Saginaw Centre was built in 1972, at a time when asbestos was commonly used for fireproofing. Use of asbestos as a building material ...
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Nonprofit organization Public Citizen reports that state settlements with drug companies over Medicaid fraud are at an all-time high.
The report says many states have recovered just as much, if not more, money from pharmaceutical companies accused of defrauding Medicaid programs as they spent on all Medicaid fraud enforcement. A total of $6.6 billion had been recovered from the beginning of 2012 through mid-July by both the federal government and states, ...
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