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
Unprecedented 'black mold' meningitis a challenge
The New England Compounding Center is shown here on October 5, 2012 in Framingham, Massachusetts. The pharmacy is currently being investigated for producing a contaminated steroid shot that included the meningitis fungus that has sickened dozens ...www.wytv.com
Meningitis Outbreak Deaths Increases to 25
The outbreak has been tied to a contaminated steroid shot for back pain from specialty pharmacy The New England Compounding Center of Framingham, MA. It has since been shut down and their products have been recalled. Federal officials are ...latino.foxnews.com
New England Compounding did not follow sterility procedures, investigators ...
Drugs produced by the New England Compounding Center were not put through the minimum procedures required to ensure sterility and were shipped to customers before the pharmacy's own safety tests were completed, a state health official said Tuesday in ...www.boston.com
Meningitis victim says she's 'lucky to survive this'
Officials have linked the outbreak to steroid shots - prepared by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts - that may have been contaminated with a common mold. The pharmacy, New England Compounding Center, has since closed, recalled all of its products ...www.wbir.com
No LA hospitals/clinics received tainted injections
A 24th person died this week as a result of the meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections issued by the New England Compounding Center. But are we at risk in ... Health officials believe the pharmacy's injections were tainted with mold ...www.kplctv.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
CDC: Meningitis Mold In Tainted Drug Can Incubate For Months
The incubation period is hard to calculate, though, because many patients had multiple injections of potentially contaminated methylpredisolone made by the New England Compounding Center. The CDC says infections following steroid injections into ankles ...www.wbur.org
Dirty shoes? How did US steroids get contaminated?
Federal and state investigators have been tightlipped about any problems they may have seen at the New England Compounding Center or whether they have pinpointed the source of the contamination. They did disclose last week that they found fungus in ...themississippilink.com
Meningitis From Tainted Drugs Puts Patients, Doctors In Quandary
Matthew Spencer receives intravenous infusions of a potent antifungal drug at home twice a day for an indefinite period to treat a suspected case of fungal infection linked to a contaminated steroid drug that came from New England Compounding Center in ...www.wnyc.org
FDA Sends Investigators to New England Compounding Center
Paul R. Cirel, a lawyer for the New England Compounding Center said in a statement late Tuesday: "It is difficult to understand the purpose of this search, since we have been clear that New England Compounding Center would provide, and has provided ...www.nasdaq.com
New England Compounding Center: Avoid Drugs From Company Tied To ...
In an alarming indication the outbreak could get a lot bigger, Massachusetts health officials said the pharmacy involved, the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass., has recalled three lots consisting of a total of 17,676 single-dose vials ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Documents in Meningitis Case Show Complaints in 1999
The Massachusetts Department of Health released hundreds of pages of documents on Monday detailing a history of violations at the New England Compounding Center, whose tainted medicine has caused a nationwide meningitis outbreak. The documents include ...www.nytimes.com
Georgia confirms first case of fungal meningitis
Exserohilum, a kind of black mold, is the primary cause of a number of fungal meningitis cases afflicting people who got steroid back injections for pain.romenews-tribune.com
Meningitis outbreak puts spotlight on compounding pharmacies
The CDC said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 tests have shown Exserohilum fungus in 10 people sickened in the current fungal meningitis outbreak.www.kval.com
Meningitis victims face long, uncertain recovery
Exserohilum, a kind of black mold, is the primary cause of a number of fungal meningitis cases afflicting people who got steroid back injections for pain.www.dailyrecord.com
Vanderbilt team details TN meningitis death
Aspergillus fumigatus, a mold linked to the outbreak, is cultured at Vanderbilt's microbiology lab. / Shelley Mays / The Tennessean.www.tennessean.com
Dirty shoes? How did steroids get contaminated?
Nearly all the victims had received steroid injections for back pain. Federal and state investigators have been tightlipped about any problems they may have seen at the New England Compounding Center or whether they have pinpointed the source of the ...www.google.com
Gov.: Fungus visible at meningitis-linked firm
Deval Patrick said the state has moved to revoke the licenses of the New England Compounding Center and three pharmacists there.www.telegram.com
Framingham's New England Compounding Center linked to deadly meningitis ...
Framingham's New England Compounding Center voluntarily shut down production Wednesday after a deadly meningitis outbreak was traced to a steroid produced at the facility.www.wcvb.com
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