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Byline: Don Sapatkin Oct. 13--Two more people have been identified with apparent fungal meningitis, New Jersey health officials said Friday, bringing the total number of cases linked to tainted steroid [...]

Byline: Don Sapatkin Oct. 12--Two more people are being treated for apparent fungal meningitis, New Jersey health officials said Friday, bringing the total number of cases linked to contaminated steroid [...]

Byline: the CNN Wire Staff ATLANTA (CNN) -- The number of documented U.S. cases of fungal meningitis has risen yet again, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting [...]

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 13, 2012 Chicago drug injury lawyer Patrick A. Salvi today applauded U.S. and state authorities' promises to consider criminal and civil penalties against a Massachusetts pharmacy [...]

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 12, 2012 Chicago injury lawyer Patrick A. Salvi said today that the national outbreak of fungal meningitis remains a serious concern as the number of confirmed [...]

Providence, RI (PRWEB) October 12, 2012 Tainted steroid injections used to treat back pain have been linked with causing a rare form of meningitis potentially affecting hundreds of Massachusetts and [...]

The article discusses product recalls during 2013 by compounding pharmacies, and people who have been sickened by the tainted products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tracked 14 voluntary recalls through early September. Some 86 new cases have been reported of fungal meningitis, an ailment that in 2012 was linked to flawed pills from the New England Compounding Pharmacy.

The article discusses former New England Compounding Center supervising pharmacist Glenn Chin who was arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts and charged for his alleged role in a 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis which allegedly caused 64 deaths.

The article informs that the death of Gokulbhai Patel, Tennessee victim fungal meningitis caused by spinal steroid injections given at the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center in Nashville, Tennessee has not been recorded in the state's official death record.

The article discusses the congressional hearing entitled "The Fungal Meningitis Outbreak: Could it Have Been Prevented?", against the Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg. It states that 447 people have become ill and 33 have died after they have injected of a steroid drug contaminated of a fungus made by the New England Compounding Center, Framingham, Massachusetts. It says that committee members blamed the FDA due to their irresponsibility regarding the situation.

The article reports on the criticisms made by U.S. House lawmakers against drug regulators for their failure to prevent an outbreak of fungal meningitis that killed 32 people.

The article reports on the inspection of unsafe practices and unsanitary conditions at Ameridose by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA spokeswoman Sarah Clark-Lynn, says that the company could not assure that their injectable products were safe and sterile for use by patients. It mentions that the company committed to address safety problems at the company to enhance the existing systems.

The article discusses the efforts of several physicians led by Marion A. Kainer to study the case of a man who has fungal meningitis and stroke in the U.S. It states that Kainer started a nationwide investigation due to rarity of the case as the man has a normal immune system and his risk for infection was only a spinal injection of a steroid. The fungus identified is reportedly unusual and transmitted through injections of a contaminated steroid drug from New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc.

In this article, the author discusses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ignorance towards the growing incidence of a rare form of fungal meningitis from the source tainted steroid injections produced by the U.S. based New England Compounding Center (NECC). steroid injections produced by the U.S. based New England Compounding Center (NECC).