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SPOTLIGHT: Hospital investigating Baxter heparin deaths
May 12, 2009 — 12:22pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Baxter has announced that providers at a hospital in Delaware, along with U.S. health officials, are looking into whether the deaths of two patients there were linked to a brand of Baxter's intravenous heparin product. The FDA has said the situation seems to be an isolated problem, but nobody's taking any chances. Article
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