News tagged with anticoagulant medication

Preventing repeat strokes -- are survivors taking their medicine?

Since 1999, stroke survivors have been advised to use aspirin, prescription antiplatelet agents, or prescription anticoagulants to help avoid another stroke. Many large surveys of the U.S. population have reported the use ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drug-eluting stents better than bare-metal stents for heart attack patients

Late-breaking data from the landmark HORIZONS-AMI clinical trial, presented at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, demonstrated that after two years, in heart attack patients, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0