Delaware
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Public health officials say 13 health-care providers received recalled medications from a Massachusetts company.
The Division of Public Health said Thursday that anyone who received spinal or joint injections from the providers after May 21 should watch for signs of illness and contact their doctor immediately if they become sick.
No illnesses in Delaware have been linked to New England Compounding Center medications.
The specialty pharmacy has been at the center of investigations into mroe than 250 fungal meningitis cases. The death told rose Thursday to 20.
The health care providers are: Advanced Eyes Care; Anesthesia Providers; Bayhealth Medical Center; Beebe Medical Center; Richard Bonder, MD; Christiana Health System; Glasgow Medical Center; Lewes Surgery Center; Pain Center of Delaware; Preceision Pain and Rehab; St Francis Hospital; and Swier clinic.
Maryland
BALTIMORE (AP) - Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital say quick diagnosis and treatment are important in preventing serious illness and death from meningitis from recalled medications.
An article published online in Annals of Internal Medicine Thursday says a 51-year-old woman went to an emergency room with a headache in August a week after getting an epidural cervical injection for neck pain. The researchers say the woman was released but returned the next day with vertigo, nausea and other symptoms and was admitted.
The article says the woman worsened and was transferred to Hopkins three days later. Despite treatment, the patient died 10 days after her first admission. An autopsy showed severe brain damage.
Health officials say one person in Maryland died and 15 have been sickened after receiving the steroid injections.
