Blood Thinner Made In China May Be Tied To Deaths

Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found “potential deficiencies” at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the drug. Baxter International, which makes the brand of heparin associated with the problems, and buys supplies from the Chinese plant, announced that it was expanding a recall to include virtually all its heparin products. Though Baxter produces much of the heparin used in the United States, regulators said the other major supplier would be able to meet the demand.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/us/29heparin.html?ex=1362027600&en=25c527943d7f8c94&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

China cracks down on unsafe coal mines

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 13, 2008

Filed at 5:16 a.m. ET

BEIJING (AP) -- China has closed more than 11,000 small coal mines as part of a two-year-old safety crackdown aimed at stemming the industry's high death toll, the government reported Sunday.

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