Pharmacy Owner Takes 5th in Meningitis Hearing
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The owner and co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the center of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, declined to testify before a congressional hearing today. When pressed by members of Congress on his role in ensuring safe and sterile products, Barry Cadden invoked his Fifth Amendment right. “On advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer on the basis of my constitutional rights and privileges including the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States,” he said at the hearing in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives had subpoenaed Cadden to the hearing to address the outbreak that has sickened 461 people in 19 states and killed 32. The outbreak has been traced to contaminated vials of methylprednisolone acetate, an injectable steroid used to treat back and joint pain made by Cadden’s pharmacy.
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| -0.252622 | “I think it is very hard to know if any one action that we might have taken could have stopped this terrible tragedy,” Hamburg replied, ... |
| -0.0252223 | “compounding” pharmacies. “The challenge we have today is that there is a patchwork of legal authorities that oversee the action we can take,” said Hamburg. |
| -0.212158 | She said there were “gaps” and “ambiguity” ... |
| -0.130879 | She said there were “gaps” and “ambiguity” in the FDA’s authority, and described a “crazy quilt” |
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Rep. Cliff Stearns
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| 0.0354605 | “You are in charge of the FDA. You are the chief honcho. You’re the great Pooh-Bah of the FDA and I’m asking you, basically, could you have prevented this tragedy? And you are saying you can’t because you didn’t have jurisdiction?” said Rep. Cliff Stearns, ... |
| 0.0171367 | “Can you ever give straight answer to a question?” Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, asked, while Stearns ... |
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Joyce Lovelace
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| -0.149054 | Joyce Lovelace spoke about her husband Eddie, who died from fungal meningitis in September after receiving a tainted steroid injection, saying she wanted “people to know what kind of person has perished because of their lack of concern.” |
| 0 | Lovelace begged the committee to “legislate this.” |
| 0.0434856 | Lovelace begged the committee to “legislate this.” “Whoever is responsible, I want them to know their lack of attention to their duties cost my husband his life, cost my family… It may not appear to be anything to you, but you are affecting valuable human lives,” she said. “I cannot beg you enough. Bi-partisan. I don’t care what party, work together and please legislate this so no family has to go through what we have.” |
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Barry Cadden
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Rep. Joe Barton
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Eddie
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The owner and co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the center of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, declined to testify before a congressional hearing today. When pressed by members of Congress on his role in ensuring safe and sterile products, Barry...
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