Most of the patients had received spinal injections of the steroid for back pain.</p><p>NECC was founded in 1998 by Barry Cadden and Gregory Conigliaro as a compounding pharmacy, a laboratory that custom-mixes solution, creams and other medicines in dosages and forms that often are unavailable from pharmaceutical companies.</p><p>Cadden, who is married to Conigliaro's sister, Lisa, had the medical