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Heparin Takes Another Life, This Time a Toddler

Omaha - A routine anticoagulant, Heparin, may have played a part in the death of a toddler at the Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday.

In the Media by Kassandra Garcia - 1 comment

Cedars-Sinia Settles With Quaids For $750,000

Dennis Quaid and his wife have settled with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with a $750,000 deal over the accidental overdose of blood thinner that almost killed their newborn twins last year.

In the Media by KJ Mullins

Texas Hospital Gives Dangerous Doses Of Heparin To Infants In Intensive Care Unit

17 Infants in a Corpus Christi, Texas Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) were given highly concentrated doses of the blood thinner, heparin. The health of the premature infants could have been made worse due to the overdose, possibly killing one.

In the Media by Nikki Weingartner - 17 comments

Heparin Responsible For More Deaths?

The blood thinning drug Heparin was suspected earlier this year for being responsible for many deaths. Now the FDA has more than tripled the number.

In the Media by Paul Bright

Actor Dennis Quaid's Twins Get Prescription Overdose at Hospital

Dennis Quaid and Kimberly Buffington's newborn twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, who were born on November 12 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, were accidentally given massive overdoses of heparin, a blood-thinning drug, on November 18.

In the Media by pajamadeen - 6 comments

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