Friday, November 9, 2012
Outbreak involving at least two Woonsocket-linked infections also led to Massachusetts regulator being fired, talk of more FDA oversight.
The director of a Framingham pharmacy connected to the deaths of up to 30 people has been subpoenaed to appear at Massachusetts House and Senate hearings next week on how his company's tainted steroids could have caused hundreds of people to contract meningitis including at least two treated at Ocean State Pain Management of Woonsocket. A third Rhode Island case of Meningitis has been linked to the company, but officials have not stated if that person was treated in Woonsocket or at the company's East Greenwich office. Barry Cadden, the director and co-founder of New England Compounding Center, which produced the drugs, has indicated that he will not appear voluntarily at the hearings, according to the Associated Press. Food and Drug …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Facility with offices in Woonsocket and East Greenwich linked to three RI cases of disease.
A third person in Rhode Island treated at Ocean State Pain Management of Woonsocket, which has offices in Woonsocket and East Greenwich, has been diagnosed with meningitis in the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak from steroid injections made in Framingham, MA. The case is the third in the state. The patient, a male in his fifties from Warwick, received a spinal epidural injection at Ocean State Pain Management on Sept. 22 from one of three contaminated lots, according to the RI Department of Health. The patient sought care at an area hospital today and is being treated. Ocean State Pain Management and New England Anesthesiology in Warwick ― received medication from some of three lots recalled by New England Compounding Center of …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
New patient hospitalized after contaminated steroid shot linked to national outbreak.
A second woman in Rhode Island treated at Ocean State Pain Management of Woonsocket has been diagnosed with meningitis in the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak from steroid injections made in Framingham, MA. The case is the second in Rhode Island. The patient, a woman in her sixties from Lincoln, received spinal injections at Ocean State Pain Management on Aug. 31 and Sept. 21. She received treatment at an area hospital and is recovering, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health. Ocean State Pain Management and New England Anesthesiology, which has offices in Warwick and East Greenwich ― received medication from some of three lots recalled by New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Massachusetts. These lots have been …
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Patient hospitalized after contaminated steroid shot linked to national outbreak.
Woonsocket has the unenviable distinction of being the first spot in Rhode Island with a case of meningitis in the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid injections made in Framingham, MA. The patient, a woman in her forties from Providence County, received a spinal injection at Ocean State Pain Management of Woonsocket on Sept. 22. She is hospitalized and receiving treatment, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health. Another Rhode Island facility, New England Anesthesiology, which has offices in Warwick and East Greenwich ― received medication from some of three lots recalled by New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Massachusetts. These lots have been linked to a multi-state outbreak of …
