Today, Worldfocus editorial consultant Peter Eisner, the former deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post, reported on the deadly contamination of U.S. drugs produced overseas, including heparin.

This news program tells the story of a young couple, Alex and Ann Oryschak, whose infant son, Julien, may have been one of the hundreds of victims who died in late 2007 and early 2008 from tainted heparin that was produced overseas. Producing drugs overseas not only allows powerful drug companies, like Baxter (who sold much of the contaminated heparin), to fly under the FDA radar and avoid government regulation and oversight, but it is cheaper. However, when safety is sacrificed in order to increase corporate profits, there is still a price to be paid. It is Julien Oryschak, Bonnie Hubley, Randy Hubley, Dennis Staples, and the hundreds of others who have lost their lives, who have borne that cost.

We thank reporters like Knut Royce, Peter Eisner, legislators like Representative Bart Stupak, and others, who, like our firm, fight to publicly expose the dirty secrets of the drug industry and effectuate real change.

To view this latest news report by Worldfocus, click here. Also be sure to read Knut Royce's detailed story posted here.

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