Purpose: Using a multiple-step testing medium-risk-level compounding test procedure, the evaluation of two work-practice changes to determine if the changes could effectively reduce the potential for ...

BOSTON — New state documents detail problems found in 2006 by an outside firm hired to do an assessment at the company at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak. The state documents, obtained by ...

Past studies have shown a general lack of compliance with guidelines for compounding sterile preparations in hospitals. [12,13,14,15] This may be related to a lack of enforceable standards similar to ...

Anesthesiologists often have to use intravenous and epidural medication packaged in large sizes, because this is the only way to purchase the medication from drug manufacturers. If given in full to a ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts state officials said they found unclean conditions including visible black specks of fungus in steroids made by a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis. Gov.

BOSTON (AP) — New state documents detail problems found in 2006 by an outside firm hired to do an assessment at the company at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak. The state documents, obtained ...

Drugs produced by the New England Compounding Center were not put through the minimum procedures required to ensure sterility and were shipped to customers before the pharmacy’s own safety tests were ...