|Articles|May 19, 2003

Drug safety experts stunned by vincristine-related death

For the second time in less than four years, a New Jersey patient who was undergoing chemotherapy at a hospital died because the drug was given via the wrong route of administration.

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Drug safety experts stunned by vincristine-related death

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