News for May 22nd, 2009

FDA clears Baxter in deaths following heparin injections

syringe 100x100Baxter Healthcare Corp. has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration () in the deaths of two patients at a Delaware hospital following an injection of the drug maker’s heparin. The attributed the two deaths, and the illness of a third patent, to existing medical conditions. All three patients suffered intercranial bleeding following injections of heparin.

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