Tainted heparin caused allergic reactions
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 14:22
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers led by MIT has confirmed that a contaminant found in several batches of the blood-thinner heparin is linked with severe allergic reactions in patients, dozens of whom died after receiving the tainted drug.
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