Tuesday 23 October 2012

Health officials knew of problem steroids in 2002: U.S. House panel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Massachusetts state health regulators were aware in 2002 that steroid treatments from the pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak could cause adverse patient reactions, congressional investigators said on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee said complaints about preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate were partly responsible for joint state and federal inspections of the New England Compounding Center's (NECC) Framingham, Massachusetts facility in 2002 and 2003. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

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