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Pharmacy tied to outbreak knew of bacteria
By Associated Press | October 27, 2012
Staffers at a pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak documented dozens of cases of mold and bacteria growing in rooms that were supposed to be sterile, according to federal health inspectors.
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Malaria creeps back into Greece amid health budget cuts
By NPR | October 26, 2012
After a 40-year hiatus, malaria is returning to Greece. Some 70 cases have been reported there this year, and at least 12 people appear to have been infected in the country. (The others picked up the disease elsewhere.)
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Cancer patients can mistake treatment for cure
By Boston Globe | October 25, 2012
Many patients with ­advanced lung and colorectal ­cancer harbor the fundamental mis­perception that treatments that can extend life and alleviate pain might also cure them, according to a new study led by researchers at the Dana-­Farber Cancer Institute.
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Before meningitis outbreak, concern at FDA about compounders
By New York Times | October 23, 2012
A year before people began dying of meningitis caused by a tainted drug from a compounding pharmacy, the FDA worried that compounders across the U.S. might be selling another substandard drug.
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Questions for Medicare in outbreak
By Associated Press | October 19, 2012
Medicare is coming under scrutiny in the meningitis outbreak that has rekindled doubts about the safety of the nation's drug supply.
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Fungus link confirmed in meningitis outbreak
By Jaimy Lee | October 18, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Federal agencies confirmed that the fungus suspected of causing the recent meningitis outbreak is responsible for contaminating steroid injections provided to about 14,000 people.
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Study teams least-healthy patients with 'star' docs
By Dallas Business Journal | October 18, 2012
A Dallas-based healthcare initiative that matches employers' least healthy patients with “star” doctors and a dedicated nurse is showing impressive results.
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CDC: More young men hospitalized for heart failure
By Andis Robeznieks | October 17, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
From 2000 to 2010, the hospitalization rate for congestive heart failure rose 21% for men younger than 65, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Feds raid lab linked to national meningitis outbreak
By Reuters via New York Times | October 16, 2012
The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts on Tuesday said federal agents raided the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others.
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More HIV-positive patients get organ transplants
By Wall Street Journal | October 12, 2012
Hospitals are increasingly willing to transplant organs into people who have HIV, a once-unthinkable step now made possible with drug regimens that are helping such patients live longer.
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