News for May 13th, 2009

New deaths, illness following heparin use spark FDA investigation

The Food and Drug Administration () is testing batches of the heparin after two people died and one became ill after receiving doses of the heparin, according to the Wall Street Journal.

All three incidences occurred at the Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, and all three were given supplied by Baxter, the same drug company at the center of last year’s contaminated heparin scandal. That , which killed more than 80 people and injured hundreds more, was manufactured in . The latest batch was manufactured in Ohio.

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