Articles by Andrew Pollack
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Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
Denise Grady, Andrew Pollack and Sabrina Tavernise – International Herald Tribune (NYT),
8 Oct 2012
The rising toll — 7 dead, 57 ill and thousands potentially exposed — has cast a harsh light on the loose regulations that legal experts say allowed a company to sell 17,676 vials of an unsafe drug to pain clinics in 23 states. Federal health officials said Friday [5 Oct 2012] that all patients injected with the steroid drug made by that company, the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., which has a troubled history, needed to be tracked down immediately and informed of the danger.
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Andrew Pollack – The New York Times,
7 Nov 2011
Researchers on Sunday [30 Oct 2011] reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood. But the research is arousing concern about possible unintended effects on public health and the environment, because once genetically modified insects are released, they cannot be recalled.
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