Quaids Sue Drug Firm Over OD

CBS interview highlights nationwide epidemic of preventable deaths

(NEWSER) - Dennis Quaid has gone on record about the frightening ordeal of his newborn twins receiving massive overdoses of blood thinners, and now he's going on 60 Minutes to ratchet up his information campaign. Quaid's interview, which will be broadcast tomorrow evening, uses his own harrowing story to highlight medical errors that kill 100,000 people a year in the US. "Our kids are bleeding from every place that they've punctured," he recalled. "It was blood everywhere." More»

Newborns 'overdosed while we're there,' actor says

(NEWSER) - Dennis and Kimberly Quaid trusted their sick newborns to an LA hospital, and less than 9 hours later, the children's lives were in danger. "Our kids could have been dying," the actor says, "and we wouldn't have been able to come down to the hospital to say goodbye." In their first interview since the incident, they tell the LA Times about their twins' fight for life. More»

Kimberly Buffington-Quaid files paperwork for split

(NEWSER) - Dennis Quaid is facing his third failed marriage, and this unraveling sounds a little nasty, with the couple having been ordered not to say anything "vulgar, profane, obscene, or indecent" to the other. Kimberly Buffington-Quaid was the one to file for divorce, TMZ reports, and her petition cites "discord or conflict of personalities" making the marriage "insupportable." The couple, married since 2004, have four-year-old twins who nearly died due to an accidental drug overdose shortly after their birth. More»

(NEWSER) - Dennis Quaid and his wife have settled for $750,000 with a Los Angeles hospital that accidentally overdosed their newborns on a blood-thinning drug last year, People reports. The twins, who fought for their lives after receiving Heparin, are now in good health, giving the story what Quaid called a "happy ending." The Quaids have also filed suit against the maker of Heparin for selling pediatric and adult doses in similar containers. More»