U.S. Marshals seized 11 lots of Heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. The FDA found the products, manufactured from material imported from China, to be contaminated with OSCS, a substance that imitates heparin’s blood thinning activity.
Fourteen babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of Christus Spohn Hospital South were given overdoses of the pediatric version of the blood thinner Heparin, according to hospital officials. And one baby has died.
Speaking beyond his own family’s ordeal with the blood thinning drug heparin that nearly killed his newborn twins, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly will tell 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft on Sunday March 16, that medical errors kill as many as 100,000 a year. These are largely avoidable mistakes, he says. The Quaids have filed a lawsuit against Baxter International.
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