Actor Dennis Quaid has joined the Democratic effort to protect the rights of victims to get compensation from pharmaceutical companies. Quaid went before congress to relate his own family’s misfortune from last November. In 2007, Quaid’s twin babies were given one thousand times the normal dose of the blood thinner heparin, and nearly died. The Quaids are suing Baxter Healthcare Corp. in an Illinois state court, claiming that Baxter was negligent when they did not recall different doses of heparin that were in similar vials with similar labels, making it difficult for doctors and nurses to tell the difference. Baxter claims they did nothing wrong, and is hiding behind a couple of recent court rulings that safeguarded makers of some medical devices and prescription drugs from lawsuits.

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