Boston Medical Center said it had received 23, and Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 22 patients, including six in critical condition and five inseriouscondition.
This is a medicine to prevent heart attacks and strokes inpatients who suffer acute coronary syndrome, the condition that occurs after a heart attack or serious heart-related chest pain.
Some patients taking the drug develop serious bleeding from their lungs, a condition that is fatal-- often in a matter of hours--in more than half the cases in which it occurs.