Question of the Day October 10, 2014 How many times will history repeat itself in the compounding pharmacy world? And these are just some of the ones reported and investigated. How many deaths and illnesses went unreported because no one made the connection to a compounded medication?

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Centers for Disease ...  

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Dec 13, 2002 - consider the possibility of improperly compounded medica- tions as a source of ... The MMWR series of publications is published by the. Epidemiology Program Office ... and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and.

U.S. Illnesses and Deaths Associated With Compounded ...  

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The Pew Charitable Trusts

Sep 5, 2014 - http://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/TN-pharmacy/index.html. Accessed Aug. 15, 2013. ... Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Oct. 12, 2007.

Morbidity & Mortality - Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc.  

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Compounded drugs are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...**The March 3, 2006 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) reported ...**CDC reported 11 cases of Serratia marcescens bacteremia occurring in  ...

• Sunenshine RH, Tan ET, Terashita DM, Jensen BJ, Kacica MA, Sickbert-Bennett EE, Noble-Wang JA, Palmieri MJ, Bopp DJ, Jernigan DB, Kazakova S, Bresnitz EA, Tan CG, McDonald LC.  A multi-state outbreak ofSerratia marcescens bloodstream infections associated with contaminated intravenous magnesium sulfate from a compounding pharmacy.  Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45: 527-33.




Deaths from Intravenous Colchicine Resulting from a ...  

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Oct 12, 2007 - ... purposes only. For current, updated information see the MMWRwebsite. .... The clinic had purchased the drug from a Texas compounding pharmacy.

Pseudomonas</I> Bloodstream Infections Associated with a ...  

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Mar 25, 2005 - For current, updated information see the MMWR website. ... On January 26, 2005, CDC was notified of four cases of Pseudomonas fluorescens .... Contaminated products prepared in compounding pharmacies have also been implicated in  ..

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Centers for Disease ...  

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Mar 25, 2005 - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Weekly. March 25, 2005 / Vol. 54 / No. 11 department of health and ... local health departments and CDC had identified a total of .... the compounding pharmacy that prepared the heparin solu- tion.