Blumenthal Calls For Criminal Investigation Of Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
The government says 170 people now have been sickened in the meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid shots, and 14 of them have died.
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The government says 170 people now have been sickened in the meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid shots, and 14 of them have died.
The ginkgo nut can be toxic to eat raw, but is used as a health supplement to treat colds.
The Department of Health said a 57-year-old Cumberland County man has been hospitalized at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center at Vineland with presumptive fungal meningitis.
Mayor Art Ward said adding new charitable causes to support would create difficulties.
State health officials say a 70-year-old Cumberland County man is hospitalized with what is believed to be the illness. He received an injection of a steroid from one of the lots recalled by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts and tied to a meningitis outbreak.
The town of Greenwich has lifted its ban on outdoor activities at dawn and dusk, the times during the hot weather when mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus are most apt to bite.
There aren't many of the new 3D digital mammography machines around yet, but Rye Radiology in Rye Brook has one.
So far, no cases of the fungal meningitis have been reported in the Tri-State Area.
He calls himself an "idiot," and his fans "turkeys," but worry not, it's all in good fun.
Blumenthal said the compound pharmacies appear to operate in a "regulatory black hole," which must be closed.
Some Minnesota lawmakers hope to force the release of Lou Gehrig's medical records, saying they might provide insight into whether the Yankees star died of the disease that came to take his name or whether repetitive head trauma played some kind of role.
Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd said no cases have been uncovered in New Jersey, but in a statement said "This is an ongoing investigation and the full scope of the affected patients and facilities is not yet known."
Five people have died after being injected with a steroid often used for back pain. The drug was distributed to 23 states, including New Jersey, and now officials are scrambling to see who may have been infected.
Roben Brookhim of Short Hills is accused of having seen patients at Associated Dental offices in New Providence, Springfield, West New York, and West Orange even though his dental license was revoked in 2004.
Psychologist and addiction recovery expert, Dr. Harris Stratyner, of the Caron Treatment Center, said it's a frightening drug.
