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Safety Alert: FDA Issues Warning On Injectable Drugs

December 1st, 2002 · 1 Comment

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued a nationwide alert warning health workers and pain clinics to quit using all injectable drugs made by Urgent Care Pharmacy, after one of their drugs was linked to deadly meningitis.

The FDA told health workers to avoid using any of the following injected drugs made by Urgent Care: baclofen, betamethasone, Bimix 30:1, clonidine, estradiol, hydromorphone, fentanyl, morphine, papaverine, Super Trimix, mesylate/prostaglandin, and testosterone.

The drugs were sold in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

(via The Associated Press)

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1 response so far ↓

  • gisele therrien // Jul 8, 2003 at 3:21 pm

    I want know if the ezetrol is the same familie I have some too take and I’m scared tell me some thing about this thank you and Iwait for the answer bye bye

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