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• Do Not Use Mass Destruction Muscle Growth Formula, FDA Warns

  December 24, 2013

  Irvin Jackson

  Mass Destruction muscle growth formula should not be used, the FDA warns following a case where a man needed a liver transplant.

• Pain Injection Infections Linked to Another Compounding Pharmacy

  May 28, 2013

  Irvin Jackson

  Federal health officials indicate that another compounding pharmacy may have distributed contaminated steroid pain injections that could put patients at...

• Public Citizen Calls for Inspection of Problem Compounding Pharmacies

  December 6, 2012

  Irvin Jackson

  In the wake of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak that has sickened more than 500 people and killed at least...

• Recalled Epidural Steroids Also Linked to Infections at Injection Site: CDC

  November 26, 2012

  Austin Kirk

  Health officials now suggest that individuals who received recalled epidural steroid injections mixed by the now-defunct New England Compounding Center...

• FDA Warns Light Therapy Manufacturer About Meningitis Treatment Claims

  November 7, 2012

  Martha Garcia

  A warning letter was issued by federal regulators to a Tennessee-based company that has been advertising the use of light...

• Meningitis Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed By Family of Outbreak Victim

  November 6, 2012

  Irvin Jackson

  An Indiana family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the compounding pharmacy linked to a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak,...

• Contaminants Found in Other Drugs From Pharmacy Linked to Outbreak

  November 2, 2012

  Martha Garcia

  Investigators have found contaminants in two more drugs released by the compounding pharmacy behind the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, which...

• States Crack Down on Compound Pharmacies Amid Meningitis Outbreak

  October 31, 2012

  Irvin Jackson

  States appear to be cracking down on compounding pharmacies nationwide, in the wake of a meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated...

• Public Citizen Calls for Probe of FDA Over Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

  October 25, 2012

  Irvin Jackson

  The prominent consumer watchdog group Public Citizen is calling for an investigation into practices at the FDA that allowed a...

• Compound Pharmacy Problems Seen Years Before Meningitis Outbreak

  October 24, 2012

  Irvin Jackson

  New reports suggest that state and federal health regulators may have known for years that there were problems at the...