Radiology Spotter Video-Cryptococcal Meningitis
Cryptococcal organisms spread from the basal cisterns through the Virchow-Robin spaces to the basal ganglia, internal capsule, thalamus, and brainstem. The production of voluminous mucoid material may enlarge the perivascular spaces. From Sumer's Radiology Site http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com -The Top Radiology Magazine. Teleradiology Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at sales@teleradproviders.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site)
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 10, 2014 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Compounder Strikes Preliminary $100M Deal Over Meningitis Outbreak
More than a year after an outbreak of fungal meningitis was traced to the New England Compounding Center and caused the worst public health crisis in the US in decades, the owners, operators and insurers of the bankrupt compounder have reached a preliminary agreement to create a fund that may exceed $100 million to compensate victims.
“This is but one chapter in this saga; litigation will continue against medical clinics, doctors, hospitals and other companies who were hired by NECC that bear responsibility to those who were badly injured or who died horrible and painful deaths as a result of having the injection of the ...
Source: Pharmalot - December 24, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into their nose, mouth or on the surface of their eyes. Here are just a few of the nasties you might catch from a cough or a sneeze or someone drooling on you: Bacterial meningitis, chickenpox, common cold, influenza, mumps, strep throat, tuberculosis, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases is a post fro...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - December 17, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
N. meningitidis: Mother Nature is usually trying to kill us
Those of us who believe in the unvarying beneficence of Mother Nature have yet to contemplate Neisseria meningitidis. N. meningitidis is a bacterium that can live harmlessly in the throats of healthy people.
But about 500 times a year in the US it causes bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection in which the membranes lining the brain and spinal cord become inflamed. Bacterial meningitis is treatable with antibiotics but even with treatment patients sometime suffer hearing loss or brain damage. And despite prompt treatment infection is sometimes fatal. When N. meningitidis gets into the blood stream it can ca...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 12, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning
Rise and shine, everyone. Another busy day is on the way. This is to be expected, though, yes? After all, not much gets accomplished when one is sitting still. Just the same, we are able to enjoy a warm sun hovering over the Pharmalot corporate campus, where the mascots are lounging, the short people are hustling off, as usual, to their houses of learning and another cup of stimulation is brewing in the cafeteria. And this is our signal to get cracking. Meanwhile, here are some items of interest. Hope you have a grand day and keep us in mind if you run across anything interesting...
Biosimilars Are Slow To Take Off In Euro...
Source: Pharmalot - December 3, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
FDA Issues New Draft Guidances For Compounding Pharmacies
Just days after President Obama signed into law a bill that was designed to bolster FDA oversight of compounding pharmacies (back story with a link to the bill), the agency has issued no fewer than three new draft guidances that cover reporting procedures, registration requirements, conditions under the law that would determine when a compounded drug is exempt from certain other provisions and enforcement actions the FDA may take.
The guidances appear after the FDA has spent the past year scrambling to recover from a scandal involving a fungal meningitis outbreak that was traced to the New England Compounding Center. So fa...
Source: Pharmalot - December 2, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Inspiration for Living a Grateful Life
In 2011 writer and artist Anne O. Kubitsky printed out 500 invitation cards asking people to share what they’re grateful for in a postcard (and mail it back to her). She left these cards in various places, everywhere from post offices to parks to college cafeterias to libraries.
Within three weeks she received handmade postcards from all over the world – from Oregon to Alaska to Australia to Germany. Today, she’s received thousands of responses in many different forms: letters, emails and even phone calls.
People also have submitted postcards made from leather and clay. One person submitted a 12-year Alcoholics Anony...
Source: World of Psychology - December 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books General Holiday Coping Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Anne O. Kubitsky grateful Gratefulness Gratitude Holidays life Source Type: blogs
Compounding pharmacy bill signed into law
President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday legislation passed by Congress to define who has oversight for regulating compounding pharmacies in the wake of a fungal meningitis outbreak caused by tainted drugs.U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., welcomed the president’s signature. He was one of the main authors of the Drug Quality and Security Act, the result of an agreement he reached with House and Senate health committee leaders to make injections of compounded sterile drugs safer.“I have been working with my Senate colleagues for a year to find a solution that would help prevent a repeat of the terrifying me...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 29, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Fungal meningitis following epidural steroid injections
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - November 21, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Deadly 5-in-1 Vaccine Kills At Least Eight Infants
Conclusion
Again, we have strong evidence to suggest that an unlicensed and unsafe vaccination is being given to millions of children in the developing world. Rather than saving their lives, as we have been led to believe that they are, the WHO, GAVI and the Gates Foundation have killed possibly hundreds if not thousands of these vulnerable children with dangerous and unnecessary vaccination programs.
Many of these children are already weak and ill. What they need is a clean and safe water supply, better nutrition and a better environment. Why are the Gates Foundation, the WHO and GAVI spending billions of dollars on vacci...
Source: vactruth.com - November 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Vaccine Death World Health Organization (WHO) Source Type: blogs
US Senate Passes Compounding And Track-And-Trace Bill
After months of negotiating, the US Senate has finally passed legislation that gives the FDA greater oversight of compounding pharmacies and also creates a national system for tracking prescription medicines from factory to pharmacy. The bill, which was already passed by the US House, is designed to bolster the pharmaceutical supply chain, and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature (here is the bill).
As reported previously, the Drug Quality and Security Bill was drafted in the wake of a scandal last year involving a fungal meningitis outbreak that was traced to the New England Compounding Center. So far, the...
Source: Pharmalot - November 18, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and refreshing because, as you know, the drumbeat of meetings and deadlines has now returned. This was expected, of course. Just the same, the moment calls for a cup or more of stimulation. After all, the nerves could use a little fortification. So please join us. We like to think that we do not drink alone. Meanwhile, here are some tidbits, as always. Hope you have a grand day and drop us a line if you run across something fascinating...
Ranbaxy Hopes To Sell Generics In Japan (BioSpectrum Asia)
Princeton May Use Novartis...
Source: Pharmalot - November 18, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Critical Care Compendium update
LITFL’s Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Currently there are almost 1,500 entries with more in the works… Some pages are more developed than others, and all the pages are being constantly revised and improved. Links to new references and online resources are added daily, with an emphasis on those that are free and open access (FOAM!).
These pages originated from the FCICM exam study notes created by Dr Jeremy Fernando in 2011, and have been updated, modified and added to since. As such will be particularly us...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Critical Care Compendium Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured CCC LITFL collection Source Type: blogs
Senate Moves Closer To Passing Pharmacy Compounding Bill
A long-awaited bill designed to provide greater oversight of compounding pharmacies passed a procedural hurdle in the US Senate last night, shortly after the US House of Representatives approved the same measure. As a result, a final Senate vote is expected tomorrow and the law could be ready for President Obama to sign the legislation into law by Friday (here is the bill).
The measure, known as the Drug Quality and Security Bill, offers greater authority to the FDA in the wake of a scandal a year ago involving an outbreak of fungal meningitis that was traced to a compounder. So far, there are 751 reported cases, including...
Source: Pharmalot - November 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Yet another incompetent regulator. The General Pharmaceutical Council is criminally negligent
Conclusions
The main conclusion from all of this is that the General Pharmaceutical Council is almost criminally negligent. It continues to allow pharmacists, Anthony Pinkus among them, to endanger lives. It fails to apply its own declared principles. The members of its Council, and Duncan Rudkin (its chief executive and registrar), are not doing their job.
Individual pharmacists vary a lot, from the superb to those who believe in quackery. Some, perhaps many, are embarrassed by the fact that their employer compels them to sell rubbish. It’s too much to expect that they’ll endanger their mortgage payments by sp...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 4, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Ainsworths Alliance Boots Anthony Pinkus Avogadro CAM General Chiropractic Council General Pharmaceutical Council homeopathy Royal Pharmaceutical Society Ainsworth's malaria meningitis pertussis pharmacists Pharmacy regulator Source Type: blogs
