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  • March 2008

    • Feds ID Extra Drug in Baxter's Recalled Heparin

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 19, 08 1:44 PM CDT

      Feds ID Extra Drug in Baxter's Recalled Heparin

      The Food and Drug Administration has identified the extra ingredient found in samples of Baxter’s blood-thinning drug heparin, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Some batches of the drug—recalled in January after reports of allergic reactions—contained over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate, but it is not certain that was the cause of the hundreds of reactions or 19 deaths linked to Baxter’s product. More »

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      China  • FDA  • pharmaceutical companies  • Heparin  • Baxter International  • blood thinner  • drug manufacturer  • drug recall  • allergic reaction

    • FDA Finds Contaminant in Blood Thinner

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 5, 08 9:49 PM CST

      FDA Finds Contaminant in Blood Thinner

      The FDA has found a contaminant in samples of heparin, a blood thinner produced mainly in China linked to 19 deaths and nearly 800 allergic reactions in the US, the New York Times reports. The contaminant may be a counterfeit form of heparin added to reduce its manufacturing cost. The FDA is fine-tuning tests to better detect it. More »

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      China  • FDA  • pharmaceutical industry  • Heparin  • Baxter International  • blood thinner  • drug manufacturer

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Big Pharma Faces Big Plunge

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 6, 07 4:50 AM CST

      Big Pharma Faces Big Plunge

      Patent protections on some of the pharmaceutical industry's best-selling drugs, like Lipitor, Plavix and Singulair, are due to expire in the next several years, and drug manufacturers have little in the pipeline to replace them. The drug companies will lose billions—as much as half their combined revenue—to generic competitors, triggering an unprecedented industry crisis, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      GlaxoSmithKline  • Pfizer  • pharmaceutical industry  • Eli Lilly  • Lipitor  • drug manufacturer  • Zocor  • Merck and Co.  • Zyprexa  • Fosamax  • Singulair  • Plavix

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