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Baxter warns of medication mix-up
The Food and Drug Administration and Baxter International Inc. are warning health-care professionals about mix-ups of two heparin products that resulted in the deaths of three infants, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The FDA posted a Feb. 6 letter from Baxter discussing the medication errors to its Web site late Wednesday.
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