On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
Exterior of Saint Thomas Hospital. / Alan Poizner / File Newly filed records in an ongoing lawsuit show a victim of the fungal meningitis outbreak was billed by two different health-care entities for the same two shots of a spinal steroid that...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
Study found 2-drug treatment reduced death risk from cryptococcal meningitis by 40 percent WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) – A drug regimen containing two powerful antifungal medicines — amphotericin B and flucytosine — reduced the...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
CDC continues to monitor patients sickened by shots from now-shuttered Mass. pharmacy WEDNESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) — Since the start of last year’s outbreak of fungal meningitis cases linked to tainted steroid injections, federal health officials...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
A pharmacy intern prepares labels while a technician dispenses mixed hormones into syringes.at Clinical Specialties Compounding Pharmacy in Augusta, Ga., in this April 22, 2008 photo. Showing extra caution after the fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 40...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
Lawsuits in meningitis outbreak aim to ease toll from mounting bills, failing health. Milda Mattila, 87, is visited at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. by her husband Ralph on Dec. 3, 2013. She has been hospitalized since early October. In September...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
MARCH 27, 2013. On Tuesday, the Michigan Attorney General asked the Michigan State Court of Appeals to authorize a grand jury for investigating the role of a company linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, and to check whether the...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
TRAVERSE CITY, MI — Life has become a lot more challenging for Theresa Hall. Since receiving a contaminated steroid injection last September, Hall has been in and out of the hospital, battling Fungal Meningitis. “My life, as I knew it, went straight...
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 30, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/compounding-pharmacies-recall-drugs-infection-fears/story?id=18772006
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 29, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
WNEM TV 5 SAGINAW, MI (WNEM) – Dramatic evidence suggests a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak is not over. In fact, it’s only getting worse. Nowhere is that more true, than in Michigan. The illness has made nearly 750 Americans sick....
On behalf of Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC | May 29, 2013 | Fungal Meningitis
The deadly fungal meningitis outbreak that killed at least 53 Americans and made 733 ill in the past year will soon be investigated by a Michigan grand jury. The outbreak was caused by steroid injections tainted with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum, which...
