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Schuette: Suspend license due to meningitis cases
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is asking regulators to suspend a license that allows a Massachusetts pharmacy to do business in the state. Schuette is targeting New England Compounding Pharmacy, which is blamed for...
Tags: Meningitis, Back Pain
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Health Department: Indiana meningitis cases up to 24
The numberof cases of fungal meningitis cases in Indiana has risen to 24. The Indiana State Department of Health revealed the latest numbers Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that one person in Indiana had died from the...
Tags: Meningitis, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses
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Two more meningitis cases in Maryland
Maryland health officials said Monday that two more patients have developed meningitis in the state after receiving a steroid injection for back pain in an outbreak that has hit nearly two dozen states. Both patients are alive, but no additional...Tags: Edgewood, Meningitis, Health Organizations, Headaches, Photophobia
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Third meningitis case reported in Maryland
Maryland health officials on Saturday announced a third patient has developed meningitis in the state after receiving a steroid injection in September. More cases were found across the country, bringing the total to more than 60. The person is alive, but...
Tags: Meningitis, Back Pain, Health Organizations, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Headaches
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Health officials: More patients linked to fungal meningitis infections
Article Highlights: - 35 people in six states now meet the criteria for a non-contagious, fungal form of meningitis - That's up from 26 just a day ago - All 35 patients were injected with a steroid - The plant where the steroid was manufactured...
Tags: News Agency, Hampshire, Meningitis, Environmental Illness, Disease Prevention
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Maryland braces for more meningitis cases
Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...
Tags: Meningitis, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Viral Diseases and Infections, University of Maryland, College Park, Health and Medical Professionals
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Nails Grow in Place of Hair on Woman's Face and Scalp
KTLA NewsBALTIMORE, MD (KTLA) -- Doctors at Johns Hopkins have a medical mystery on their hands, a condition that is causing nails to grow out of a woman's face. The illness came on after the woman suffered an allergic reaction to steroids used to control asthma....Tags: Symptoms, Asthma, Allergies
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Loyola scientists study blindness in Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Three years ago, Brianna Thompson, then 9 years old, suffered a widespread rash and bloodshot eyes after she took 11/2 teaspoons of Tylenol. To treat these ailments, she was given steroids, Benadryl and more Tylenol. But that caused her lips and tongue...
Tags: Dermatologists, Health and Safety at School, Benadryl (drug), Chemical Industry, Allergies
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Inhaling steroids stunts growth, but not much
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - Adults who took inhaled steroids as children to control their asthma may be shorter than they otherwise would have been, but only by a little, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Results of a long-term asthma study found that children...Tags: Placebo, National Institutes of Health, William Kelly, Culture, Medical Research
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Armstrong Can't Dodge His Tainted Legacy
The Hartford CourantLance Armstrong's decision not to fight long-standing allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs to spike seven Tour De France cycling championships came within days of Roger Clemens' decision to lace up his spikes again. (The 50-year-old...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Postal Service, Baseball, Justice System, Cycling
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Lance Armstrong will not fight USADA doping allegations.
Staff reporterThe U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he declared he was finished fighting the drug charges that threaten his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all...Tags: Travel, Emergency Health Procedures, Justice System, World Anti-Doping Agency, Pursuit Cycling
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Agriculture not much different from other industries using technology to replace labor
Recent events in Texas have once again prompted me to take up educating folks about agriculture. In case you did not hear, 15 steers died on a small ranch east of Austin, Texas, from prussic acid poisoning after grazing in a field of hybrid Bermudagrass...
Tags: Health, Prednisone (drug), Drugs and Medicines, Genetic Engineering, Agriculture
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