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Early Warning: Heart-Valve Problem That Felled Diet Pills Had Arisen Previously
The Wall Street Journal looks at cases in Belgium of leaky heart valve reports connected with diet pills. "U.S. sellers heard reports from Belgiom but passed only some on to FDA."
Tags: diet pills; heart-valve problems; FDA; Belgium; Redux
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Critical Care
KOMU-TV investigation revealed two Jefferson City, Mo, hospitals were in trouble after violating several regulations. St. Mary's Health Center had been cited by the state's bureau of facility regulation for a number of problems ranging from patients developing severe bedsores and losing large amounts of weight during admission, to a nurse who refused to cooperate with superiors during surgery and needed a reminder during a heart operation of how some of the heart valves work. At Capital Region Medical Center, the federal government had uncovered instances of patient-dumping.