Nearly 150 patients exposed to potentially contaminated steroid injections in Tennessee were given medicine that was well past the normal shelf life. The Tennessean reports some of the medicine was more than seven weeks old, well past the industry standard of 24 hours.
A forensic pathologist says an autopsy shows a southern Kentucky judge’s death was linked to tainted steroid shots at a Tennessee clinic. George Nichols II performed the autopsy of Eddie Lovelace’s body at the request of the judge’s family.
Tennessee's chief medical officer says the rate of new infections of deadly fungal meningitis appears to be declining in the state where it was first discovered. Dr. David Reagan said in an interiew that not everyone who received the contaminated medicine that caused the infections will get sick.
