.
.
MEDICAL: DISEASES: MENENGITIS :
MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG: ADVERSE EVENT :
MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG:
GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT:
Lawmakers Focus on Small Drugmakers as Meningitis Death Toll Rises
.
.
Lawmakers Focus on Small Drugmakers as Meningitis Death Toll Rises
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: October 9, 2012
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/health/
as-meningitis-death-toll-rises-lawmakers-call-for-more-oversight.html
.
A shorter URL for the above link:
.
http://tinyurl.com/9mx4f4v
.
.
The number of people who have died in a national meningitis outbreak
linked to injections of a contaminated drug rose to 11 on Tuesday as
lawmakers called for a Congressional inquiry into pharmacies of the kind
that made the medicine and new laws to ensure tighter federal oversight of
their operations.
.
In all, a total of 119 people have been affected in the outbreak, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. All of them had been
injected with a pain drug shipped around the country by a pharmacy in
Massachusetts.
.
Health officials on Tuesday reported three new deaths, and state and
federal health officials scrambled to notify the 13,000 people who may
have been given the drug, methylprednisolone acetate, an epidural steroid
that is injected into the neck and spine for pain.
.
The drug that federal health officials suspect was contaminated with
fungus was made by the New England Compounding Center, registered as a
pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.
.
Tennessee has had by far the most cases, and state health officials said
Tuesday that a fungus called Exserohilum was the primary cause of
infection there. Initially, the main suspect was another fungus,
Aspergillus. At a news briefing, the state health commissioner, Dr. John
Dreyzehner, called Exserohilum a fungus so rare that most physicians never
see it in a lifetime of practicing medicine.
.
Compounding pharmacists typically prepare medicines for individual
patients at a doctors request. But critics say some of the businesses have
become miniature drug companies, without the federal oversight that goes
with them.
.
.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
.
.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[log in to unmask]
http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
Net-Gold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html
Index: http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w
http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en
General Internet & Print Resources
http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet
COUNTRIES
http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info
EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT
TOURISM
http://guides.temple.edu/tourism
DISABILITIES
http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES
INDOOR GARDENING
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
Educator-Gold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/
K12ADMINLIFE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/
The Russell Conwell Learning Center Research Guide:
THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79
Information Literacy
http://guides.temple.edu/infolit
Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o
and also
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neemers/
Twitter: davidpdillard
Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
David P. Dillard
http://tinyurl.com/p63whl
http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw
INDOOR GARDENING
Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening
SPORT-MED
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html
HEALTH DIET FITNESS RECREATION SPORTS TOURISM
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/
http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport
http://healthrecsport.jiglu.com/
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html
.
.
Please Ignore All Links to JIGLU
in search results for Net-Gold and related lists.
The Net-Gold relationship with JIGLU has
been terminated by JIGLU and these are dead links.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/30664
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/message/145
Temple University Listserv Alert :
Years 2009 and 2010 Eliminated from Archives
https://sites.google.com/site/templeuniversitylistservalert/
.
.
|