Teams unravel heparin death mystery
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
An international team of researchers led by MIT has explained how contaminated batches of the blood-thinner heparin were able to slip past traditional safety screens and kill dozens of patients recently in the United States and Germany.
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