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Texas hospital overdoses babies....

TessWhite @TessWhite (3146) • United States 9 Jul 08

A hospital near where I live has learned that they mistakenly overdosed 17 premature infants with a drug Heparin, a well known blood thinner. The worse part is the overdosage was 100 times stronger than the amount the infants...

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FDA: 100 deaths tied to heparin since 2007

icyorchid @icyorchid (2564) • United States 8 Apr 08

62 deaths linked to contaminated batches of the blood thinner. WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said more than 100 patients have died while taking the blood thinner heparin since early 2007. The...

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