Saturday, December 21, 2013

Essential Read!! For nation's drug supply, a mixture of regulations Compounding pharmacies have less strict rules, sometimes with fatal results

Published: Saturday, December 21, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 20, 2013 at 6:28 p.m.
The Marion Pain Management Center in Ocala had been running a few minutes behind when Roseann Fusco walked in, but that was little concern.
The procedure was supposed to be simple enough. It would be a single steroid shot in her back to alleviate chronic pain fromherniated discs and other spinal maladies. The steroid was preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, made by New England Compounding Center (NECC), a compounding pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.
Fusco's doctors told her the injection would provide some temporary relief until they could perform back surgery. She said she knew there could be complications: a bruised nerve, an allergic reaction, some nausea from the medicine, but nothing prepared her for what was to come.
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