Dennis Quaid has sued Baxter Healthcare, the drug company that makes the blood thinner heparin, over the overdoses that nearly killed his newborn twins three years ago. Quaid says the drug mix-up at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles happened because of the packaging. His lawsuit says heparin and a lower-dose version called Hep-Lock are both packaged in similar blue vials with small print on the labels, making it difficult to tell the doses apart. Quaid says the drug maker should have recalled the heparin vials because the company knew infants had died because of similar errors. Quaid and his wife settled with the hospital for $500,000 in June 2009.
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