In US Meningitis Scare, States Face Huge Task of Tracking Drugs
In US meningitis scare, states face huge task of tracking drugs
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Those lots were shipped to 23 states and 76 facilities. Already a challenging effort, the job was made markedly harder in recent days when the Food and Drug Administration said that "out of an abundance of caution" it had expanded the list of products …
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UPDATE 3-More drugs may be linked to US meningitis outbreak-FDA
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Two other drugs made by the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak may be linked to the disease, U.S. health regulators said on Monday, potentially widening the scope of the health …
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Meningitis outbreak: New England Compounding Center knew mold was …
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The contaminated medicine blamed for 10 fungal meningitis deaths in Tennessee started out in a pharmacy where mold and bacteria grew in “clean rooms,” a leaking boiler left puddles on the floor, and equipment was soiled with greenish-yellow residue, an …
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Outbreak baffled doctors until they saw common cause
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Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Dr. April Pettit, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, had been struggling with the same disturbing pattern: A man in his 50s with what appeared to be meningitis. He initially responded to …
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