Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Steroid meningitis echoes local incident: Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek


Published 4:29 p.m., Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections made in a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy bears chilling similarities to the case of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek.
In spring 2001, three people died and nearly a dozen were hospitalized after receiving cortisone injections in their spines and developing meningitis. The shots, which had been made from scratch at Doc's in a common pharmacy practice known as compounding, were later found to have been tainted with bacteria.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Steroid-meningitis-echoes-local-incident-3975723.php#ixzz2ADq90yzR


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