New England Compounding Center: Mold And Bacteria Found Growing In ...
Steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center have been tied to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has sickened 328 people across the U.S.www.huffingtonpost.com
New England Compounding Center offered specialized drugs
The New England Compounding Center was not a drug maker along the lines of Eli Lilly and Co., Johnson & Johnson or Merck.www.indystar.com
323 infected in meningitis outbreak as experts study fungal culprit
Twenty-four people have died. Yesterday, the agency had reported 312 cases of fungal meningitis, including 24 deaths, in patients who received contaminated epidural steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center, mostly for back pain.www.cbsnews.com
Maryland health officials critical of compounding pharmacies in JAMA report
The article, which appeared first in Friday's online edition of the medical journal, comes as the country still reels from a national meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroids from the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. The article ...www.baltimoresun.com
Florida Suspends Compounding Pharmacy
The DOH release did not mention the outbreak, linked to New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, and there is no apparent connection.wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu
New England Compounding Center investigated, linked to meningitis outbreak
State officials said Tuesday that they found these and other problems at the New England Compounding Center during a preliminary investigation into the company, linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.www.oregonlive.com
Before deadly meningitis outbreak, pharmacy avoided sanctions several times
Problems at the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts, date as far back as 1999, the year after it began operations, according to hundreds of pages of documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request.www.nydailynews.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 Center, Meningitis-Linked Pharmacy, Shipped ...
Twenty-three people have died and more than 300 have become ill with fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. Medical experts say the outbreak is not over and there will be more ...www.huffingtonpost.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 ...www.boston.com
Grassley: Compounding centers likely to have high priority for next Congress
The recent fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States, which has been traced to the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, will be a wake-up call for the federal government, U.S.qctimes.com
Oliver Law Group Launches Website to Educate Public on Concerns With ...
The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month advised medical professionals to discontinue use of any products manufactured by the New England Compounding Center. Initially, the ...www.kitsapsun.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
Black fungus specks in vials among complaints at New England Compounding ...
The New England Compounding Center, at the heart of the meningitis outbreak that has resulted in the deaths of 23 people nationwide, has a history of complaints, poor health and safety standards and a failure to test for possible contamination, state ...www.cbsnews.com
Meningitis outbreak: FDA lists Minnesota clinics that received NECC drugs
Only one steroid made by New England Compounding Center has been linked to the current meningitis outbreak. But the FDA has warned it can't verify the safety of other drugs made at the facility.minnesota.publicradio.org
1st meningitis case linked to injections appears in Georgia
FILE - In this photo made available, Oct. 9, 2012, by the Minnesota Department of Health shows shows vials of the injectable steroid product made by New England Compounding Center implicated in a fungal meningitis outbreak that were being shipped to ...www.ajc.com
'Greenish-black' material tied to meningitis deaths
The vials were observed at the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass. The center is at the forefront of the FDA investigation into the steroid outbreak, which has so far killed 25 people and sickened 338.www.thespectrum.com
Maker of drug linked to meningitis sold other medicine to Shasta County providers
Shasta Regional Medical Center, MD Imaging Vascular and Interventional Center, Apogee Outpatient Surgery Center and Court Street Surgery Center all received doses of various medications since May 21 from the New England Compounding Center, ...www.redding.com
Hospitals pull untainted meds from controversial center
ROCKFORD - The Food and Drug Administration identified two Rockford hospitals - as well as other regional health systems - this week that received products from the New England Compounding Center, but the products were not the steroid injections ...www.rrstar.com
Bankruptcy likely for Framingham firm linked to meningitis infections
New England Compounding Center, the Framingham speciality pharmacy blamed for the meningitis outbreak that has killed 21 people nationwide, will probably file for bankruptcy protection soon to try to stem the growing number of lawsuits against the firm ...www.boston.com
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