Heparin Made Out of Pigs from Elsewhere

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 02/21/2008 - 22:45

Last week, we discussed what was known about the sudden increase in the frequency and severity of adverse effects due to heparin, an anti-clotting drug that has been in use for more than 7o years.

The heparin all carried the Baxter International label, but its "active ingredient," that is, the heparin itself, was purchased from Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC , which in turn obtained it from a factory in China operated by Changzhou SPL , which...

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