The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7196 p597-604
4 May 2002

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Fatal injection doctors arrested

Two Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, doctors have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and released on bail without charge after they mistakenly injected vincristine into the spine of a teenaged cancer patient who subsequently died (PJ, 21 April 2001, p528).