Article: Warning: labels; Dennis Quaid, wife say their twins were seriously injured after health care provider gave babies wrong concentration of drug because vials looked the same

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, filed a lawsuit in Chicago on Tuesday against Deerfield-based Baxter Healthcare Corp. for its labeling of a blood-thinner the Quaids say seriously injured their baby twins last month.

Zoe Grace Quaid and Thomas Boone Quaid "were very critical for a while" after being given the wrong concentration of the drug Heparin, said the Quaids' attorney, Susan E. Loggans.

The 10-units-per-milliliter vial of Hep-lock looks very similar to the 10,000-units-per-milliliter vial of Heparin. They are about the same size and have blue labels, one a darker shade of blue, one a lighter shade of blue.

Loggans said the similarity of the labels made them "deadly."

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