News tagged with 'Baxter'

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have filed his second lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare over the near-death experience of their twins over a drug mix-up at a Los Angeles hospital. The labels of the two drugs were never changed even though the drug maker knew they had caused prescription errors that led to the death of three infants, the complaint says.

Baxter International reports one patient death and several injuries from its dialysis machine HomeChoice and HomeChoice Pro.

One day after the Supreme Court decision, the cameras have left and Diana Levine realizes that even with a decision in her favor and a $6.7 million award for damages, she's still missing most of her right arm. 

The lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by actor, Dennis Quaid and his wife has settled for $750,000.  Their newborn twins received an overdose of the drug heparin and they bled out nearly dying. The twins have since recovered, but the Quaids have formed a foundation to inform the public about the "conspiracy of silence" of medical errors that kill 100,000 a year. 

Baxter International has settled pending lawsuits with the families of ten Spanish patients who died last summer after being treated with defective Baxter dialyzers. The device, which filters waste from blood before it is returned to the body, was recalled in October after Baxter acknowledged that a fluid used in the

Attorneys representing the Country of Spain recently decided to proceed with a lawsuit against Baxter International after the Spanish Health Ministry concluded that there was a distinct connection between the deaths of eleven kidney patients and the use of the now recalled Baxter dialyzer. The device was recalled last

The FDA is investigating reports of over 50 patient deaths worldwide, including four in the United States, that may have been caused by certain dialyzers made by Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, Ill. Baxter voluntarily recalled the dialyzers in mid-October after reports of deaths associated with its product in