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The New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass., has been under
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its steroid shots used mostly for back pain.
Monday's step by the Food and Drug Administration followed reports of
infections in three people who got different drugs made by the company. One is a
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The illnesses are under investigation, and it's very possible the heart
patients were infected by another source, FDA officials cautioned. They did not
say whether the meningitis case involved a fungal infection or where the three
patients lived.
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including 15 who have died, in 15 states. For weeks, officials have been urging
doctors to contact patients who got shots of the company's steroid
methylprednisolone acetate, advise them about the risks of fungal infection, and
urge them to take any meningitis symptoms seriously.
The steroid was recalled last month, and the company later shut down
operations and recalled all the medicines it makes.
The FDA on Monday expanded its advice to doctors to contact all patients who
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heart operations. The agency said it took the step out of an abundance of
caution as it investigates the new reports involving the heart surgery drug and
the second steroid, called triamcinolone acetonide.
The company issued a statement Monday that said it was reviewing the FDA's
latest advisory, but is continuing to cooperate with the FDA Cheap Beats By
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outbreak.
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Last week, federal health officials said 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people
who received the steroid shots had been contacted. Those people received
methylprednisolone acetate injections at clinics in 23 states.
New England Compounding, which custom-mixes ointments, painkillers and other
products, is licensed to sell in all 50 states. The FDA did not say how many
patients fall under the new advisory, or where the products were shipped.
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dizziness and fever. The CDC said many of the cases have been mild, and some
people had strokes. Symptoms have been appearing between one and four weeks
after patients got the shots, but CDC officials on Thursday warned at least one
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