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on Wed Jun 19 7:52 PM

Complications from contaminated steroid injections

SCIENCE DAILY

Magnetic resonance imaging at the site of injection of a contaminated lot of a steroid drug to treat symptoms such as back pain resulted in earlier identification of patients with probable or confirmed fungal spinal or paraspinal infection,...
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on Wed Jun 19 4:36 PM

Infections From Contaminated Injections Can Lurk Undetected : Shots

NPR

Some people exposed to tainted steroid injections in last year's meningitis outbreak had slow-moving spinal infections that escaped detection until they had MRI scans. Many of the people didn't have symptoms, or thought the pain was due to their...
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on Wed Jun 19 12:00 AM

New group will push lawmakers for drug compounding safety

KANSAS CITY STAR

Tommy Thompson, health and human services secretary under President George W. Bush, and pharmacist Sarah Sellers said they founded the Working Group on Pharmaceutical Safety to ensure that all the medications taken by U.S. consumers are safe and...
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on Tue Jun 18 4:14 PM

MRI may help find infection from tainted injection | Reuters

REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some people who received potentially contaminated steroid injections may benefit from a MRI to check for signs of infection, a new study suggests - even if they don't have obvious symptoms.
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on Tue Jun 18 4:00 PM

MRIs Spot 'Hidden' Fungal Infections From Tainted Steroid Shots: MedlinePlus

MEDLINE PLUS

More cases will continue to surface, study author predicts Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Drug Safety, Fungal Infections
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on Tue Jun 18 8:35 AM

Emergency Response to Malaria Outbreak in Lulingu

ALL AFRICA

[MSF]An outbreak of malaria in Lulingu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is affecting large numbers of people, prompting an emergency response by international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams have...
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on Fri Jun 14 6:21 PM

Dangerous Kid Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

IVILLAGE

As parents, we're tuned in to every skinned knee, sneeze  and cough. In the vast majority of cases, such symptoms don't warrant a trip to the emergency room or even a call to your pediatrician. But how do you know when they do? Here are the...
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on Mon Jun 10 11:04 AM

Fungal, bacterial growth found in steroid injections

CNN

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified bacterial and fungal growth in unopened vials of a steroid injection from a Tennessee pharmacy under investigation for links to reported infections.
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on Thu Jun 6 5:38 PM

New Vaccine Drives Africa Meningitis Cases to Lowest in Decade

VOICE OF AMERICA

Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.   The...
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on Mon Jun 3 9:30 AM

How Cuts to Food Stamps Threaten Children's Health | Wired Science

WIRED

As Congress considers whether to shrink programs that help poor people buy food, some public-health experts say the short- and long-term health of perhaps tens of thousands of children could be jeopardized. They point to dozens of studies on...
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