HOWELL – A pharmaceutical executive who was charged in 2018 with 11 counts of second-degree murder following a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak has been sentenced to prison again. Barry Cadden, 57, the former owner of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. He had pleaded no contest […]
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Days after a routine injection to ease back pain, Donna Kruzich and a friend drove across the border to Canada in 2012 to see end-of-summer theater in Stratford, Ontario. The 78-year-old Michigan woman suddenly became ill and returned home. By early October, she was dead. “Most of the time she could […]
Bacterial meningitis caused the death of an 11-year-old student at Burns Science and Technology Charter School in Oak Hill in February, according to an autopsy report from the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office released to The News-Journal on Tuesday. Bacterial meningitis is contagious and can be fatal. The bacteria, neisseria meningitidis, causes meningococcal meningitis, according to […]