Ed White | Medical Design & Development

Glenn Chin, the pharmacist who supervised the Massachusetts lab responsible for the deaths of 11 Michigan residents, left, sits behind Michigan Assistant Attorney General Shawn Ryan, right, as she speaks in court, May 17, 2024, in Howell, Mich.

Pharmacist Pleads No Contest to Involuntary Manslaughter in Michigan Deaths from Meningitis Outbreak

He supervised production in a lab that was rife with mold, insects and cracks.

August 23, 2024

Michael Kruzich holds a photo of his late mother Donna during an interview Monday, April 15, 2024, in Lansing, Mich. Donna Kruzich was one of dozens of people in the U.S. who died after being injected with tainted steroids made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. Now, more than a decade later, the operator of the New England Compounding Center is returning to a Michigan court to be sentenced on involuntary manslaughter charges.

Lab Chief Faces Sentencing After Fatal U.S. Meningitis Outbreak

More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened.

April 18, 2024

Barry Cadden, president of the New England Compounding Center, followed by members of his legal team, arrive at the federal courthouse for sentencing, June 26, 2017, in Boston.

Lab Leader Pleads No Contest to Manslaughter in 2012 Michigan Meningitis Deaths

His specialty pharmacy supplied injections of mold-tainted steroids that killed about 100 patients.

March 6, 2024

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. The state has agreed to destroy more than 3 million dried blood spots that are in storage. It's a partial settlement in an ongoing lawsuit over privacy, consent and the use of blood spots for research. The agreement doesn't cover millions more spots that are stored in Detroit.

Michigan to Destroy Some Blood Spots in Fight Over Consent

Since 2010, Michigan must have permission from parents to use spots for research.

June 23, 2022