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The issue is not the concentration …,” Medbuy vice-president Michael Blanchard said. “The problem is the labels do not accurately describe the contents of the bag.” Medbuy president Kent Nicholson said his company is in the process of terminating its contract with Marchese, which he valued at $2-million to $3-million annually. Medbuy is a group-purchasing organization that buys medication and supplies on behalf of hospitals. The testimony stood in stark contrast to that of Marchese president Marita Zaffiro, who told the committee last week that her company’s product met the exact specifications of its contract with Medbuy and suggested that hospitals were at fault for imprecisely administering the drugs. (..) Both executives testified that if the bags of medicine were overfilled with saline, as has been established in the hearings, the pharmacist at Marchese overseeing the compounding should have noticed, and the company should have labelled the bags accordingly.
— Buyer blames manufacturer for diluted cancer drugs - The Globe and Mail
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Toronto Police are looking for a thief with a taste for very good scotch — the kind that goes for $26,000 a bottle. Investigators on Tuesday asked the public for help in catching a man who walked out of an LCBO outlet in the Queens Quay-Yonge St. area — on April 7 with a 700 ml bottle of Glenfiddich Single Malt scotch that he picked up in the store’s Vintages section. The man paid for a bottle of wine but left without paying for the 50-year-old high-end hooch, police said. (via $26K bottle of scotch stolen from Toronto liquor store - Crime - Canoe.ca)

Toronto Police are looking for a thief with a taste for very good scotch — the kind that goes for $26,000 a bottle. Investigators on Tuesday asked the public for help in catching a man who walked out of an LCBO outlet in the Queens Quay-Yonge St. area — on April 7 with a 700 ml bottle of Glenfiddich Single Malt scotch that he picked up in the store’s Vintages section. The man paid for a bottle of wine but left without paying for the 50-year-old high-end hooch, police said. (via $26K bottle of scotch stolen from Toronto liquor store - Crime - Canoe.ca)

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Dr. Carol Sawka of Cancer Care Ontario said all four Ontario hospitals immediately removed the medications received from the drug manufacturer when the problem was discovered late last month. (via Watered-down chemotherapy to be investigated - Health - CBC News) About 1,200 patients in the Ontario communities of Oshawa, Peterborough, London and Windsor, as well as Saint John, N.B., were given cyclophosphamide, used to treat cancers including breast and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The premixed bags contained too much saline solution, which diluted the chemotherapy agent. “Our understanding is from the hospitals this drug may have been to 20 per cent under the dose expected and hypothetically, one would imagine if only one dose was delivered at three per cent less than intended of a 12-dose regimen it would be very unlikely to have any impact, but it is difficult to speculate beyond that because of the unique circumstances of each patient,” Dr. Carol Sawka, vice-president of clinical operations at Cancer Care Ontario, said in an interview today. “It’s a very worrisome situation, obviously most worrisome for the patients and their families involved, and we will work to find out how this happened,” said Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. “I don’t know exactly how this happened, but we obviously need to find out how it happened.”

Dr. Carol Sawka of Cancer Care Ontario said all four Ontario hospitals immediately removed the medications received from the drug manufacturer when the problem was discovered late last month. (via Watered-down chemotherapy to be investigated - Health - CBC News)

  • About 1,200 patients in the Ontario communities of Oshawa, Peterborough, London and Windsor, as well as Saint John, N.B., were given cyclophosphamide, used to treat cancers including breast and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The premixed bags contained too much saline solution, which diluted the chemotherapy agent.
  • “Our understanding is from the hospitals this drug may have been to 20 per cent under the dose expected and hypothetically, one would imagine if only one dose was delivered at three per cent less than intended of a 12-dose regimen it would be very unlikely to have any impact, but it is difficult to speculate beyond that because of the unique circumstances of each patient,” Dr. Carol Sawka, vice-president of clinical operations at Cancer Care Ontario, said in an interview today.
  • “It’s a very worrisome situation, obviously most worrisome for the patients and their families involved, and we will work to find out how this happened,” said Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. “I don’t know exactly how this happened, but we obviously need to find out how it happened.”
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