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: Glendale Personal Injury LawyerDeaths and Injuries Linked to Heparin
By Greg Owen
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to identify the contaminant that has been found in Heparin, which may be linked to as many as 19 deaths. Although, at this time, the FDA has not established a direct causal link. The drug Heparin is used in dialysis and heart procedures to stave off blood clots. Baxter sells somewhere in the range of 35 million units of heparin sodium injection multi and single dose vials per year in the U.S. alone. Those sales amount to approximately $30 million annually.
Full post as published by Glendale Personal Injury Lawyer on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).
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