Boston health officials say a paramedic may have tampered with vials of drugs and infected dozens of people. A city…
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FDA finds pharmacy failed to maintain ‘clean rooms’ as cases rise in meningitis outbreak
Health officials and doctors have tracked down most of the 14,000 people potentially at risk for fungal meningitis, blamed for…
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Newly-approved FDA drug dramatically changing lives of CF patients
On the surface, Lindsay Shipp’s story may sound sad, but it’s a story of hope with a happy ending. All…
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Meningitis outbreak prompts discussion of pharmacy conditions
Four weeks after the recall of tainted steroids amid a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, it remains unclear how widespread the…
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Report: Women have rare egg-producing stem cells
For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are…
Read MoreBackpack powers Alaskan man’s heart
A 51 year-old man is carrying around an essential lifeline in a backpack, q13fox.com reported. Christopher Marshall from Wasilla, Alaska,…
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2 of 3 spinal injury patients see gains in stem cell trial
Interim results from three patients in an early-stage trial of StemCells Inc’s experimental cell treatment for chronic spinal cord injury…
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Parents: Surgeon Operated on Wrong Eye of Washington Boy
A Washington couple was considering Tuesday whether to sue a surgeon they accuse of mistakenly operating on their son’s left…
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Nuclear accidents pose little risk to health, NRC says
The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is “very small” because…
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Meningitis outbreak tangles two pharmacies with common owners
A Massachusetts company that mixes drugs for hospitals on Wednesday gave up an attempt to distance itself from an affiliated…
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