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Heparin used in innovative cholesterol-separating method
People who have high cholesterol may have another alternative to statin drugs – a method that literally sucks bad cholesterol right out of a patient’s blood, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
FDA will not name Chinese plants that supplied tainted heparin
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is at odds with congressional investigators over an investigation into the federal agency’s inspection of foreign drug manufacturing facilities.
More products made in China recalled for harming infants
Will Chinese products be responsible for more deaths and hardships around the world? Early last year, more than 80 people died and thousands more were sickened after receiving the blood thinner heparin. It was later found that specific lots had
Despite recall, Baxter International enjoys third-quarter gains
Despite heparin-recall woes earlier in the year, Pharmaceutical drug giant Baxter International announced that it had a 19 percent increase in third-quarter profits, according to a Baxter International press release.
Pharmaceutical companies developing drugs to fight blood clots
Five pharmaceutical companies are working on new medications to treat blood clots, also known as thrombosis, according to The Wall Street Journal. Thrombosis is a serious problem affecting nearly 900,000 Americans each year, and resulting in nearly 300,00 deaths annually.
FDA to set up offices worldwide
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will place more than 60 food and drug regulators worldwide over the next year to provide guidance on U.S. quality standards, according to the Associated Press. This will replace the agency’s current practice
French Lovenox brand heparin recall
There has been yet another report of heparin being pulled off the market for fear it may harm people. This week, French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis recalled the remaining batches of its heparin medicine distributed before May 2008, Lovenox, based on a
China-made products cause safety concern
Heparin isn’t the only China-made product that has turned up contaminated and, in many cases, harmed others. Last March, a contaminant was found in batches of Heparin, supplied to Baxter International by its Chinese plant. The over-sulfated chondrotin sulfate in
synthetic heparin in development
Robert Linhardt, a scientist at Troy, New York-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is leading a team of researchers who have developed a fully synthetic version of the blood thinner heparin. While the group has only produced a few milligrams of the
