Officials: Deaths linked to heparin batch
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO, July 30 (UPI) -- U.S. health officials say they have been able to connect three deaths to a contaminated batch of the blood-thinning drug heparin.
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