A year and a half ago, the heparin overdose of actor Dennis Quaid’s twins was big news. The legal settlement just announced in the case isn’t as big of a news story to most media, but it’s also very significant.

The Associated Press reports that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has offered a $500,000 settlement in the case, which the Quaids have accepted. Half of that money will go to each of the twins: Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone. Also, Cedars-Sinai will pay for any additional medical care the Quaid twins ever need related to their injury, though they seem to have recovered.

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Chances are, you place your trust in pharmaceutical products. Chances are, when you got an MRA or MRI exam, you thought you were getting results which would help you. You thought your MRI or MRA would  pinpoint internal problems and boost your health, thanks to use of an intravenous contrast dye. But if that dye was gadolinium-based, you may have thought wrong.

That’s because gadolinium used in a gadolinium MRI or MRA exam is injuring countless Americans. No, it doesn’t harm everyone. But it can prove seriously damaging to those with pre-existing kidney ailments. In fact, it can spark a potentially life-threatening condition: NSF, or Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, also known as NFD, or Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy.

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