- Shezad Malik MD JD | December 27, 2011 1:14 AM | Fort Worth, TX
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public that an additional concentration of liquid acetaminophen marketed for infants (160 mg/5 mL) is now available at local...
- Jeff Rasansky | May 11, 2010 4:33 PM | Dallas, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Last week, Almariah Duque, was admitted to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was just a toddler, twenty-three months old. It was her second visit to the Medical Center in six months. She...
- Beth Janicek | April 14, 2010 1:53 PM | San Antonio, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
In November 2007, Dennis Quaid’s 10 day old twins were given an adult dose of the blood thinner heparin at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which essentially turned their blood to...
- Jesse Guerra / Texas Safety Lawyer | July 11, 2008 11:29 AM | Corpus Christi, TX
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
A second baby has died at Christus Spohn South this week after an error in overdosing the drug, Heparin, by the hospital's pharmacy. The second baby was the twin sister of the first infant who died...
- Bob Hilliard | July 09, 2008 11:18 AM | Corpus Christi, TX
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
CNN News has reported that Christus Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas has confirmed the death of a seven day old baby in their neonatal intensive care unit yesterday morning. The infant was...
- Bob Hilliard | July 08, 2008 6:52 PM | Corpus Christi, TX
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
In a press conference earlier this evening, Spohn CEO Bruce Holstein acknowledged "something went terribly wrong." Breaking news by local TV station KIII confirmed that one of the 14 infants...
- Scott Kappes | June 10, 2008 4:29 PM | Houston, TX
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Today the FDA and ETHEX Corporation issued a voluntary
recall of a single lot of morphine sulphate tablets after a report suggested that some
of the tablets were twice the appropriate...