Magazine
July 2016
Compounding
A nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak killed 64 people and sickened more than 750
who received contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center.
T A I N T E D S T E R O I D S
Joan Rivers Lawsuit:
What We Learned p. 26
New Gadgets GI Docs
Will Love p. 50
Stop Biofilm
Before It Starts p. 69
Stressed Surgeons
Gone Bad p. 136
Disaster
How the deadliest medication
contamination case in U.S.
history happened — and how
it could happen again. P. 38
4 Infected Patients
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4 Infected Patients
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Compounder Safe?
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