NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would increase federal oversight for companies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines. Full story
Senate lawmakers are pushing ahead with a bill that would bring new federal oversight to large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. Full story
State pharmacy officials on Thursday threw their support behind a proposal giving the Food and Drug Administration authority over large compounding pharmacies, in an effort to head off more outbreaks tied to contaminated medications. Full story
Scientists are warning residents in Houston, Texas, not to handle Giant African Land Snails which have been spotted in neighborhood gardens because they can carry meningitis.
Health officials say a meningitis outbreak has killed at least 40 people in the West African nation of Guinea. Full story
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who have had bacterial meningitis are less likely to finish high school and to be economically self-sufficient as adults, a new study suggests. Full story
The Cycle hosts highlight Steve Kornacki's moments of paranoia over the course of the show. For example, "is it the flu or is it spiral meningitis?"
Friends of Kalamzoo College sophomore Emily Stillman hold a memorial to honor the student who died after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. WOOD’s Ryan Takeo
The man in charge of the specialty pharmacy tied to the deadly meningitis outbreak was on Capitol Hill today: he faced questions about what happened to cause 32-deaths and 461-illnesses from tainted steroid shots. One big question: how the company with a checkered history stayed in business despite
Congress holds hearings on the multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis traced to the New England Compounding Center. NBC's Erika Edwards reports.
The co-owner of the NECC pharmacy tied to the deadly meningitis outbreak has refused to answer questions, leaving federal and state regulators to explain why they allowed a business with a checkered history to keep making drugs. NBC’s Lisa Meyers reports.
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2012 file photo, a closeup view through the lens of a microscope and magnified on the computer screen shows the meningitis causing fungus Exserohilum rostratum at the Mycotic lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The staff and technicians have been
Aspergillus, a fungus associated with meningitis illnesses and deaths.
