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Flood of Trayslol Lawsuits
From Reuters via Yahoo! News: "Bayer CEO says faces 78 Trasylol lawsuits in U.S."-- Germany's Bayer AG is facing 78 lawsuits in the United States linked to its Trasylol drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, its chief...

Bayer Pharmaceuticals Suspends Marketing of Trasylol
At the request of the FDA, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has agreed to stop marketing Trasylol. Trasylol is a drug that controls bleeding during heart surgery. According to recent studies, using Trasylol over other similar drugs significantly increases the risk of death, kidney failure, stroke or heart problems...

Hearts Pumping with Anger after Trasylol Recall
Trasylol medical product recall is another announcement its manufacturer Bayer made earlier this month. Trasylol used during heart surgery was recalled after findings that the drug relates to surgical personal injuries...

All Trasylol Pulled from Market
Trasylol manufacturer Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. will begin removing any remaining stock of the blood-clotting medication from the U.S. market, after detailed results of a Canada drug study showed an increased risk of death in Trasylol patients...

Trasylol License Suspended
The anti-bleeding drug Trasylol was recalled in early November after a study revealed the risk of death was 50 percent higher than on other drugs. The BART study examined results on over 3,000 patients that had been given Trasylol and two similar drugs...

Study Implicates Trayslol
From MM&M: "Study hammers last nail in the coffin for Bayer's Trasylol," by Ben Comer-- New study findings caused Bayer to begin withdrawing supplies of its antifibrinolytic drug, Trasylol (aprotinin injection), from the US market...

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