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. FULL STORY »
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.) FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
A Dallas-based healthcare initiative that matches employers' least healthy patients with “star” doctors and a dedicated nurse is showing impressive results. FULL STORY »
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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