New England Compounding Center: Mold And Bacteria Found Growing In ...
WASHINGTON - Federal health inspectors say they found bacteria and mold growing in rooms that were supposed to be kept sterile at the pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.www.huffingtonpost.com
Death Toll From Meningitis Rises To 10 In Tennessee
Steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center have been tied to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has sickened 338 people across the U.S.www.newschannel5.com
State investigating its response to years of complaints about NECC
As scrutiny on its oversight of the New England Compounding Center mounts, the state says it will investigate why the board responsible for overseeing pharmacies did not punish the company despite a history of complaints.www.metrowestdailynews.com
Mass. pharmacy dodged reprimand after protest
The sanction by the Board of Registration in Pharmacy was included in a proposed consent agreement that was meant to resolve complaints against the New England Compounding Center in Framingham. The complaints included a failure to meet accepted ...www.google.com
New England Compounding Center Provided Tainted Meds In 2002 That ...
A 2004 lawsuit filed in upstate New York's Monroe County claimed New England Compounding Center produced a tainted shot that caused William Koch to contract bacterial meningitis at Rochester General Hospital on July 17, 2002. Koch died Feb. 28, 2004 ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Team 5 Investigates Uncovers New England Compounding Center's Spotty ...
But a 2004 civil suit claimed one of those patients, an elderly New York man, died from bacterial meningitis resulting from a tainted shot from New England Compounding Center. That suit was settled out of court before trial. The Board of Registration ...www.wcvb.com
For patients warned in meningitis outbreak, waiting is agony
The steroid had been made at the New England Compounding Center and was from one of the three lots later discovered to be contaminated with a fungus.www.latimes.com
New England Compounding Sued Over Shot Meningitis Risk
Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord usually caused by an infection from a virus or bacteria. The New England Compounding Center, which mixed the drug, suspended operations last week and recalled 17,676 doses. Twelve ...www.businessweek.com
Report: Drug Site of Meningitis Outbreak Found Unsterile
Investigators say that the New England Compounding Center, which manufactured the tainted steroids at the center of the outbreak, was found to have repeatedly failed to keep its facility sterile.www.newsmax.com
New Findings From First CDC Report on Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
They followed up on a single case-report from a clinician and in less than 10 days, along with the CDC, pieced together a number of random meningitis cases, thereby identifying the New England Compounding Center as the source of the outbreak. Without ...www.huffingtonpost.com
The New England Compounding Center, Oct. 5, 2012 in Framingham, MA ...
The steroid came from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., a specialty pharmacy that has recalled three lots of the drug and shut down operations.abcnews.go.com
Meningitis Outbreak: Pharmacy Inspection Reveals Drug-Safety Lapses
Unlike bacterial meningitis, fungal meningitis is not transmitted from person to person, and only those who received the steroid injections are thought to be at risk.www.770kob.com
New England Compounding Center, Pharmacy Tied To Meningitis Outbreak ...
Agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration searched the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in the Boston suburb of Framingham, with officers from the local police department on site providing support, Framingham police said.www.huffingtonpost.com
Meningitis outbreak: List reveals affected medical centers
Twenty clinics and hospitals in Middle Tennessee are among the 74 facilities statewide that received products from New England Compounding Center, whose moldy medicine is blamed for a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis. Discuss the fungal meningitis ...www.tennessean.com
Watson: Meningitis outbreak a rare incident
During the past few weeks, we have learned of a growing number of fungal meningitis cases linked to a batch of contaminated epidural steroid injections created by the New England Compounding Center. Meningitis refers to inflammation of the meninges ...savannahnow.com
CT Lawmakers link lax oversight of compounding pharmacy to meningitis outbreak
based compounding pharmacy, New England Compounding Center (NECC), are the source of the fungal infection that is responsible for the recent meningitis outbreak.www.examiner.com
Ten more people diagnosed with meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid ...
Sealed vials of the steroid, made by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., contained exserohilum rostratum, a fungus found in soil and plants.guardianlv.com
Meningitis outbreak toll now 23 dead, 284 sickened: CDC
The officials said they'd confirmed the presence of the fungus, Exserohilum rostratum, in unopened vials of a steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center. The vial came from one of three lots recalled by the Framingham-based company ... In ...www.myfoxdc.com
Insight: How compounding pharmacies rallied patients to fight regulation
The FDA has traced the steroid injections to New England Compounding Center, or NECC, a Framingham, Massachusetts compounding pharmacy founded in 1998.www.reuters.com
A case for the enabling power of regulations
The appalling case of a contaminated injectable pain drug from New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, which has sickened hundreds and killed at least 21, serves as a reminder of why there are product safety regulations.www.startribune.com
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