FDA: Docs Should Check On Patients Who Got Other Drugs Made By Pharmacy In Meningitis Outbreak

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK - Health officials have broadened their warning to doctors about other medicines made by a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak.

The Food and Drug Administration took the step Monday because of reports of new illnesses that may be tied to other products made by the same company, the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass.

Now health officials want doctors to contact patients who got any injection made by the company and warn them of the risk of infection.

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FDA: Docs Should Check On Patients Who Got Other Drugs Made By Pharmacy In Meningitis Outbreak (Original post)	Purveyor	Oct 2012	OP
this would include hundreds of different drugs	riverwalker	Oct 2012	#1
Good God! Thanks for the link to this list. Glad I haven't been near a doc in the last 2 years. nt	Purveyor	Oct 2012	#2
It seems the majority of the list are heavy doses	Seedersandleechers	Oct 2012	#3
that is a hell of a long list of different substances.	bbgrunt	Oct 2012	#4
They must be fearing the worst if they have recalled EVERYTHING...	hexola	Oct 2012	#5
I dont want to make light of tradgedy - but...is there any Romney link here?	hexola	Oct 2012	#6

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Mon Oct 15, 2012, 03:42 PM

riverwalker (6,473 posts)

1. this would include hundreds of different drugs

How many died with meningitis undetected? If the meningitis deaths were by the related strokes, how many stroke deaths were actually from the meningitis?

The list is here:
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm322979.htm

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Mon Oct 15, 2012, 03:47 PM

Purveyor (13,450 posts)

2. Good God! Thanks for the link to this list. Glad I haven't been near a doc in the last 2 years. nt

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Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:22 PM

Seedersandleechers (2,617 posts)

3. It seems the majority of the list are heavy doses

of opiates. Yikes!

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Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:19 AM

bbgrunt (3,819 posts)

4. that is a hell of a long list of different substances.

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Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:06 AM

hexola (2,884 posts)

5. They must be fearing the worst if they have recalled EVERYTHING...

and shut down!?

WOW...

Incompetence?

Terrorism?

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Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:34 AM

hexola (2,884 posts)

6. I dont want to make light of tradgedy - but...is there any Romney link here?

This is a Mass. company...and according to this source (perhaps not the greatest) these "compounders" are regulated by the state...not the Feds...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/meni-o16.shtml

Anything Gov Romney might have done while in office to loosen regulation?

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