Comments on: Heparin scandal reporting ignores corruption http://www.bloggernews.net/114738 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:25:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Janet M. Jacob http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-1828322 Janet M. Jacob Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:19:30 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-1828322 Nancy, My mother, Johanne Matthiessen had knee surgery in Aug.2007. She had a clot in her lung and Dr. treated her with HEPARIN,Baxter Heparin. NDC code #00641040025- that NDC code was on the original list of 9 recalled batches. My mother was so ill, starting almost immediately upon receiving the Heparin. Everything that happened to my mother, happened during her extended stay at the hospital resulting in her ending up in the ICU. She suffered most of the symptoms reported by the FDA and all the while under doctor's care. I mention this because no one doctor at the hospital attributed her problems to Heparin because 1. They did an allergy (HIT) test right away. Not allergic, at least not to what doctors may have thought Heparin was made up of. 2. My mother's complications were not just normal side effects of Heparin, they were so egregious the doctors felt something else must be going on. 3. My mother, who over months of struggling to recover ended up needing Lovenox, due to more clotting from being bed ridden for nearly a month. Lovenox is a form of Heparin, and my mother had no side effects, NONE, not even in the mildest form. Do I think my mother received tainted (altered) Heparin, yes. Do I believe Baxter, a for profit pharmaceutical company when it said they did not have anything to do with making this altered Heparin. No. Heparin that was altered with a synthetic product that so closely mimics the far more expensive natural product that the FDA almost missed finding it. Do I believe Baxter may have delibertately altered batches of Heparin in order to test this product on small groups of people, using them as human Guinea Pigs. Yes, I think this story is that dark. Nancy, My mother, Johanne Matthiessen had knee surgery in Aug.2007. She had a clot in her lung and Dr. treated her with HEPARIN,Baxter Heparin. NDC code #00641040025- that NDC code was on the original list of 9 recalled batches. My mother was so ill, starting almost immediately upon receiving the Heparin. Everything that happened to my mother, happened during her extended stay at the hospital resulting in her ending up in the ICU. She suffered most of the symptoms reported by the FDA and all the while under doctor’s care. I mention this because no one doctor at the hospital attributed her problems to Heparin because 1. They did an allergy (HIT) test right away. Not allergic, at least not to what doctors may have thought Heparin was made up of. 2. My mother’s complications were not just normal side effects of Heparin, they were so egregious the doctors felt something else must be going on. 3. My mother, who over months of struggling to recover ended up needing Lovenox, due to more clotting from being bed ridden for nearly a month. Lovenox is a form of Heparin, and my mother had no side effects, NONE, not even in the mildest form. Do I think my mother received tainted (altered) Heparin, yes. Do I believe Baxter, a for profit pharmaceutical company when it said they did not have anything to do with making this altered Heparin. No. Heparin that was altered with a synthetic product that so closely mimics the far more expensive natural product that the FDA almost missed finding it. Do I believe Baxter may have delibertately altered batches of Heparin in order to test this product on small groups of people, using them as human Guinea Pigs. Yes, I think this story is that dark.

]]> By: » Chinese Babies dying from contaminated formula (Same “contamination” that was in the dogfood last year). - Blogger News Network http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-596921 » Chinese Babies dying from contaminated formula (Same “contamination” that was in the dogfood last year). - Blogger News Network Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:56:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-596921 [...] that I put the word “contamination” in quotes is the same reason that I pointed out in my articles on the fake heparin “contamination”: it is not a chemical that would enter into the manufactured substance due to carelessness or [...] […] that I put the word “contamination” in quotes is the same reason that I pointed out in my articles on the fake heparin “contamination”: it is not a chemical that would enter into the manufactured substance due to carelessness or […]

]]> By: Chris Oldenhof http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-286545 Chris Oldenhof Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:26:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114738#comment-286545 Nancy you are so absolutely 100% right with what you are saying here. I hope you are forwarding your conclusions also to Messrs. Stupak and Dingell! But I do think they probably understand this already. It will be worth while to watch the webcast of the hearing in the Congress on coming Tuesday the 15th. Please note that, seen in a broader perspective, executing large numbers of on site inspections - and yes, including a strong focus on possible fraud and counterfeiting plus including a Chinese speaking inspector) - do have a strong deterrent effect. But in this case inspections would most probably not have prevented this heparin catastrophe of which the total health impact worldwide will only become clear step by step, if at all. Nancy you are so absolutely 100% right with what you are saying here.
I hope you are forwarding your conclusions also to Messrs. Stupak and Dingell! But I do think they probably understand this already.
It will be worth while to watch the webcast of the hearing in the Congress on coming Tuesday the 15th.

Please note that, seen in a broader perspective, executing large numbers of on site inspections - and yes, including a strong focus on possible fraud and counterfeiting plus including a Chinese speaking inspector) - do have a strong deterrent effect. But in this case inspections would most probably not have prevented this heparin catastrophe of which the total health impact worldwide will only become clear step by step, if at all.

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