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In your spine or even in your arm from one of these compounding pharmacies check with your doctor to see. >> clayton it is only one compounding pharmacy. >> right that one up in massachusetts. >> the one in massachusetts. this is a reminder for us. if you are getting a shot, there is always a risk of introducing foreign body, infection. people should realize i do need this shot? i don't want to scare anyone out there. i think the fact that it's not contagious calm. this is a wakeup call. did you need that back shot. every time you put a needle in your body you are taking a risk of introducing ...

Describes as emotional distress and medical expenses and bodily injuries for this woman and also for the other patients in minnesota who received the possibly tainted injections. trace? >>trace: we have mentioned the compounding pharmacies mix together their own drugs. have we heard anything from the pharmacy? >>guest: not much. we know theyhired a lawyer. he is a prominent boston criminal defense lawyer who specializes in health care law. this initial civil suit filed in federal court is on behalf of patients in minnesota. remember, there are now fungal meningitis cases reported in 12 of the ...

>> you know it's interesting, unlike drug manufacturers, which face stiff regulation by the fda it's very different for these compounding pharmacies, these are pharmacies that take in drugs from these outside manufacturers, and then either combine them or alter them in a way to distribute to patients who for some reason can't take the drugs in their original form. well, the fda has tried to regulate these compounding pharmacies, but in 2002 the supreme court overturned a law that would have given the tp-rbs da more oversight on the ground that restrictions the fda was trying to impose on adver...

Treatment represents idaho's first case associated with the fungal meningitis outbreak. officials say a total of 39 people in that state received the potentially tainted injection but nationwider diseal estimates up to 14,000 people were potentially exposed to the tainted injection. the centers for disease control says roughly 90 percent of those at-risk patients have already been contacted. >>shepard: a lot people have never heard of the pharmacies that put medicines together. they avoid the larger medicine factories and cost less. what do we know of the pharmacy? >> these are pharmacies, com...

>> it's a state rule. in massachusetts, compounding pharmacies can only make individual medications for individual prescriptions. in other words, if a patient needs a pill convert to do a liquid, for example, this doctor writes a prescription, the pharmacy fills it. but the center was operating more like a drug manufacturer, making large batches of this injectable back pain steroid and then shipping them to clinics around the country. tonight we're learning the massachusetts attorney general's office is investigating this pharmacy and that the company has hired one of boston's top criminal def...