tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post8305913515110386889..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Contaminated Heparin: Where is the Outrage?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-33648848775224050432010-01-07T21:36:51.088-05:002010-01-07T21:36:51.088-05:00why have no criminal charges been filed yet?why have no criminal charges been filed yet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-48991038953665706002008-04-29T16:48:00.000-04:002008-04-29T16:48:00.000-04:00I wonder if companies are using foreign (China and...I wonder if companies are using foreign (China and other Asian countries) to make medicines in an attempt to fly under the radar and avoid the FDA and it's stringent, heavy regulation and inspection of drug manufacturers. Obviously, the FDA cannot inspect everything to do with medicine production in these foreign countries, and money is being made selling the imported medicines at users' risk. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-76066028088942541952008-04-29T15:00:00.000-04:002008-04-29T15:00:00.000-04:00My mother passed away on September 13th after deve...My mother passed away on September 13th after developing what was described as heparin induced thrombosis in both of her arms. One of the blockages was so severe that the doctors determined that they needed to surgically remove the offending clot. Immediately after surgery, her blood pressure dropped drastically and she suffered 4 cardiac events, the last of which was fatal. <BR/>I don't know Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-72205231946912435612008-04-11T21:22:00.000-04:002008-04-11T21:22:00.000-04:00I AM OUTRAGED. Why are we getting ANYTHING from C...I AM OUTRAGED. Why are we getting ANYTHING from China? They poison our kids toys....our pets food...and now medications that WE in the USA are quite capable of making. My Mom received heparin in Jaunary of this year and died. I do not yet know if she received the bad batch or not...but trust me I am trying to find out. The fact is she had an episode of pulmonary edema...and was very ill Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-47971080329750175522008-04-11T05:18:00.000-04:002008-04-11T05:18:00.000-04:00I am also concerned about the lack of people being...I am also concerned about the lack of people being outraged at this action. I can say this because I was one of the "heparin contamination" victims. At this moment, I cannot get my doctors, nor the hospital I was in to talk to me, we assume that they are worried that I will sue. But why would I sue THEM? THEY, just as I, trusted that the FDA and the drug companies would be providing a safe, cleanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-9549654974123745582008-03-27T12:58:00.000-04:002008-03-27T12:58:00.000-04:00Roy, you are right to be outraged. Counterfeit dr...Roy, you are right to be outraged. Counterfeit drugs are recognized as a huge problem in other parts of the world--an estimated 100,000 people a year die in China from taking counterfeit prescription drugs. Recently, counterfeit prescription drugs have taken the lives of 19 Americans and caused severe injury to hundreds more.<BR/>Many people getting dialysis and heart surgery take large doses Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07432095709356409251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-19439333404974226032008-03-26T15:35:00.000-04:002008-03-26T15:35:00.000-04:00Roy--I'm not a physician, but I am outraged . . . ...Roy--<BR/><BR/>I'm not a physician, but I am outraged . . . and have been for quite some time, that U.S. corporations continue to prey on citizens. I've long maintained that these corporations--who have garnered the RIGHTS of personhood--should have the same accountability as persons. While I doubt that corporations could ever be charged with 1st degree murder, their complicity in wrongful deathsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-81340754719522073662008-03-26T15:22:00.000-04:002008-03-26T15:22:00.000-04:00COnsidering the low quality of much of the electro...COnsidering the low quality of much of the electronics I buy stamped "Made in China", I'd say the Baxter execs should have been suspicious by default about the heparin ingredients, with regard not just to adulteration and counterfeiting (which China seems excellent at - think CD's and designer watches), but to basic impurity.<BR/><BR/>After all, these came not from a foreign electronics company, InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.com