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Deadly Dose: Heparin Expert Helps Uncover Source Of Lethal Contamination - Read More

Date Added: April 26, 2008 01:08:03 PM
The mysterious death of patients around the world following a routine dosage of the common blood thinner, heparin, sent researchers on a frantic search to uncover what could make the standard drug so toxic. A researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was among a small group of scientists with the expertise and the high-tech equipment necessary to determine the source of the contamination.

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