Dennis Quaid

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Dennis Quaid Testifies About Twins' Overdose On Capitol Hill

AP   |  PETE YOST   |   May 14, 2008


WASHINGTON — Dennis Quaid told Congress on Wednesday of a harrowing, near-fatal drug mix-up in which his newborn twins were administered 1,000 times the normal dose of a blood thinner. The 54-year-old actor said his family's brush with tragedy underscores...

Dennis Quaid's Misdiagnosis

Alison Rose Levy | Posted March 23, 2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

Dennis Quaid's movie star status affords his family the best medical care available. But it couldn't shield his children from the dangers encountered by rich and by poor upon entering a hospital.

As everyone knows, the Quaid twins were mistakenly given intravenous doses of the blood thinner, Heparin, 2000 times...

LA Hospital Fined For Quaid Twins Overdose

AP   |   March 21, 2008


LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles hospital was fined $25,000 by state health regulators for giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three infants including the newborn twins of Dennis Quaid. The California Department of Public Health cited Cedars-Sinai Medical...

Dennis Quaid On Death By Medical Error: "It's Bigger Than AIDS, It's Bigger Than Breast Cancer"

CBS   |   March 13, 2008 05:08 PM


Dennis Quaid sat down with "60 Minutes" and opened up about the medical mistake that almost cost his newborn twins their lives at LA's Cedars Sinai hospital. They were lucky, but many patients are not. As Quaid tells Steve Kroft,...

'Vantage Point' Gets Top Box Office Vote

AP   |  ALICIA CHANG   |   February 24, 2008


LOS ANGELES — The political thriller "Vantage Point" secured the top spot at the weekend box office, earning an estimated $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The previous No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox's "Jumper," dropped...

Dennis Quaid Dishes Babies, Shows Off Pictures, Talks About Teenage Son Driving

Huffington Post   |   February 20, 2008 11:29 AM


Dennis Quaid had twins in November, and after a much-publicized medical scare they are healthy. Quaid was on Letterman Monday night and 'Live with Regis and Kelly' today and he talked about the kids, proudly showed off pics in his...

John Edwards, Celebrity, and Staying In The Game

Gale Walden | Posted January 25, 2008 | Off The Bus


Gale Walden

First, every time I see Bill Clinton lately I think he's Dick Van Dyke, and I'm happy. Then his finger comes out and points and I think, "Oh, it's just Bill Clinton. I wish she had left him." Every time. Second, Ron Paul has begun to remind me of

Dennis Quaid Chokes Up Talking About Twins

AP   |  RYAN PEARSON   |   January 24, 2008


PARK CITY, Utah — Dennis Quaid says his new movie shows "life imitating art." The actor, whose newborn twins were given an overdose of blood thinner in November, choked up with emotion at the sight of himself holding two healthy...

Dennis Quaid: The Hospital Didn't Say Our Kids May Be Dying

AP   |   January 15, 2008 08:17 AM


Dennis Quaid said staff at the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center misled him while his newborn twins were being treated there, telling him the children were "fine" even as doctors scrambled to reverse a blood thinning medicine overdose. Quaid told the...

Dennis Quaid's Twins' Overdose Results In Hospital Wrist Slap

AP   |   January 9, 2008 10:18 PM


A hospital put three children, including Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, in danger by giving them overdoses of a blood thinner, California regulators said Wednesday. The California Department of Public Health said the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gave the pediatric patients 1,000...

Dennis Quaid Sues Drug Company Over His Newborn Twins

AP   |  Robert Jablon   |   December 4, 2007 03:57 PM


Dennis Quaid and his wife sued the makers of heparin Tuesday after their newborn twins were inadvertently given massive doses of the blood thinner at a hospital. The product liability lawsuit, filed in Chicago, seeks at least $50,000 in damages....

Dennis Quaid's Newborn Twins In Accidental Overdose Nightmare

AP   |   November 20, 2007 02:32 PM


The newborn twins of Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, were reportedly given an accidental overdose of blood thinner at a hospital. The celebrity Web site TMZ.com said the actor's children, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were given vials of...

Dennis Quaid And Wife Welcome Surrogate Twins

AP   |   November 12, 2007 04:35 PM


The Quaid twins have arrived. Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, welcomed Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace on Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif., the actor's publicist, Cara Tripicchio, said Monday. The couple are the biological parents of the twins, who...

 

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