The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the list of potentially contaminated drugs from the Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center – including another type of steroid and drugs used for heart and eye surgery.
An injectable steroid from the NECC called methylprednisolone acetate has already been linked with a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
On Oct. 15, the FDA issued the following warning: “As a result of the ongoing investigation of NECC, ...
continue reading...ABC reports that another person has died from a fungal meningitis outbreak, bringing the total death toll to 15.
The report cites newly released figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stating that 198 people in 13 states have contracted the infection, which comes from a tainted steroid medication called methylprednisolone acetate. It’s commonly injected into the spine for back pain, although one of the patients was infected after receiving an injection for ankle ...
continue reading...One of the patients who received an injection of tainted steroid linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak has filed suit against the medication’s manufacturer in Minnesota District Court. It’s the first of what legal experts predict will be a wave of lawsuits, Reuters reports.
As of Oct. 12, the federal Centers for Disease Control announced that the number of cases related to the outbreak had risen ...
continue reading...According to Reuters, the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid medication has led to calls for more oversight of what the article describes as “a largely unregulated corner of the pharmaceutical world.”
The latest figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control put the number of cases at 119 in 10 different states. The CDC is also reporting 11 deaths. The latest victim is a 70-year-old man in Florida, Reuters reports.
The New England Compounding Center ...
continue reading...CNN provides a question-and-answer article about the deadly meningitis outbreak connected to steroid medication that has sickened more than 100 people in nine states.
The rare fungal infection has been traced back to a steroid medication that the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., manufactured. The injectable steroid is commonly used to treat back pain, and federal health officials say as many as 13,000 people in 23 states may have ...
continue reading...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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