Less government regulation in action

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Two other drugs made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) appear to be involved in the fatal meningitis outbreak that has now claimed the lives of 15 people in as many states, the FDA announced Monday.




The FDA said today it is investigating one case of possible meningitis associated with an epidural injection of triamcinolone acetonide and two reports of fungal infection with Aspergillus fumigatus in two transplant patients who were given cardioplegic solution made by the company.




http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellne...k-drugs-probed/story?id=17484597#.UHx8CdkiTqI
 
Doctors are being told to check their patients that may have used other/different medications from this same outfit. They are seeing other problems as well.
 
Haiku said:
Doctors are being told to check their patients that may have used other/different medications from this same outfit. They are seeing other problems as well.
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Remind me. Isn't it a conservative mantra that government regulation of private enterprise is bad?
 
Agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration searched the New England Compounding Center, or NECC, in the Boston suburb of Framingham, with officers from the local police department providing support, Framingham police said.



The raid took place as calls came for an even wider probe into whether the once obscure pharmacy may have broken federal laws dealing with controlled substances, and as additional meningitis cases were announced.




Carmen Ortiz, U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, said in a statement, "I can confirm that this office and our law enforcement partners are investigating allegations concerning the New England Compounding Center."





http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-usa-health-meningitis-idUSBRE8970TQ20121017
 
Four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the death toll to 19, health officials said Wednesday.


The deaths are among the 247 people in 15 states sickened in the outbreak. They all received shots of an apparently contaminated steroid medication made by a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy.




http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/17/meningitis-outbreak-deaths/1639925/
 
Nationwide, the outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots for back pain is now blamed for 284 illnesses in 16 states, and 23 deaths.




The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate cases reported in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.




http://www.newschannel5.com/story/19872442/meningitis-outbreak-claims-another-tennessee-life
 
When Romney was governor, he allowed free enterprises like this to flourish. But now that a Democrat is in charge, the government is killing jobs with regulation.




Water from a leaking boiler collected just outside a room that was supposed to be sterile.



Floor mats used by technicians were filled with dirt and debris.



Drugs were shipped out before the company even confirmed they were sterile.



The outbreak of fungal meningitis, an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, has sickened 308 people, including 23 who have died, in 17 states.



The state said Tuesday that its preliminary investigation, which began last month after the company was first suspected in the growing outbreak, found batches of drugs ready for general distribution but not labeled for specific patients.



Its state license permits the company to fill out only specific prescriptions for specific patients, and distributing drugs in batches like a manufacturer would violate that, said Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the state Department of Public Health's Bureau of Healthcare Safety.






http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/19...-find-problems-at-mass-pharmacy#ixzz2ADGKCZ9j
 
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Map shows states affected by the meningitis outbreak and those receiving suspected tainted medications.



Massachusetts regulators in 2004 proposed a formal reprimand for a company now linked to deadly meningitis outbreak, but they never delivered it after the company protested the reprimand could be "fatal to the business."


The sanction by the Board of Registration in Pharmacy was included in a proposed consent agreement that was meant to resolve complaints against the New England Compounding Center in Framingham. The complaints included a failure to meet accepted standards for making the same steroid that's been connected to the outbreak.


The agreement was among documents released this week by the state Department of Health that provide more details about past incidents at NECC, which was shut down in the wake of the fungal meningitis outbreak that has reached 17 states, sickening 317 people, 24 of whom have died.




http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2012/10/25/ap/health/us_med_meningitis_outbreak.txt
 
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