Hospital error blamed for more infant overdoses
July 12, 2008 By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN , Associated Press Writer
Hector and Maggie Chapa, grandparents to twins Keith and Kaylynn Garcia who died this week at a Corpus Christi, Texas hospital, talk about their grandchildren Friday, July 11, 2008 at their attorney's office in Corpus Christi. The hospital has acknowledged that an error in its pharmacy caused the overdose of 14 infants in the hospital. (AP Photo/Caller-Times, Todd Yates)
(AP) -- The case of 14 babies who received accidental overdoses while in intensive care has raised new questions about how a common blood-thinning medication could be given to infants repeatedly in the wrong dosage.
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