Posts Tagged 'steroids'

Q&A about meningitis outbreak

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 ...

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Pharmacy linked to meningitis recalls all products

The New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis, has voluntarily recalled all of its products.

The meningitis has been linked to a steroid medication injected into the spine to treat back pain. According to a story in the Chicago Tribune, the New England Compounding Center said there’s no indication that any other products have been contaminated and the recall is being undertaken purely as a precautionary measure.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had ...

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Meningitis outbreak speads to seven states

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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Meningitis outbreak likely to spread

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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Spinal steroid injection linked to Tennessee meningitis outbreak

State and federal health officials are reporting an outbreak of fungal meningitis in Tennessee.

Tennessee’s chief medical officer said at least 14 people who received steroid injections have been infected and two have died. All but one of those people received steroid injections for back pain at a Nashville clinic identified as the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center. The other case, reported in North Carolina, was a patient who received the same type of injection.

Although investigators have not yet identified the ...

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