News tagged with blood thinners
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Toward an improved test for adulterated heparin
Scientists are reporting refinement of a new test that promises to help assure the safety of supplies of heparin, the blood thinner taken by millions of people worldwide each year to prevent blood clots. The ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 21, 2011 |
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New statement offers advice on treating dangerous, deep blood clots
Doctors are encouraged to consider therapies in addition to blood thinners to treat certain patients with potentially dangerous blood clots that form in the deep veins and travel to the lungs, according to a new scientific ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 21, 2011 |
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A ruptured aorta needn't be a death sentence, survivors say
John Ritter was working in a Burbank studio on the set of his TV sitcom. Aaron Roberts was cooling his heels in a hotel room outside of Chicago after a business meeting. Exactly four years separated the days when two very ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Merck stops trial for potential blood thinner
(AP) -- Shares of Merck & Co. are falling after the drugmaker says it has halted one late-stage trial of a potential blood thinner and will immediately stop giving the drug in another study to patients who have had a stroke.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Vampire-inspired blood thinner begins new round of trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for Halloween, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health physicians have begun testing an experimental blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire-bat saliva.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Drug trial results refine treatment during angioplasty operations
A landmark international study, coordinated by McMaster University, has found that lower doses of a blood thinner called unfractionated heparin (UFH) during angioplasty did not reduce bleeding or vascular complications compared ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Get with the Guidelines -- Stroke program could be global model
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke program could be a foundation for improving stroke care globally, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the Am ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Extended use of anti-clotting drug helps some bedridden patients
A treatment plan used to prevent potentially dangerous blood clots in recovering surgical patients can also benefit some patients immobilized by acute medical illness, doctors have found in a multi-institutional study.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Study Warns of Potential Adverse Drug Interactions from New Using Blood Thinners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three new oral blood-thinning drugs nearing approval by the Food and Drug Administration are more convenient than the standard drug Coumadin because they do not require monthly visits to adjust doses.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 31, 2010 |
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Self-Monitoring Lowers Risks for Patients on Anti-Clotting Drug
A new review of existing research finds that many patients who take an anti-clotting drug or "blood-thinner" can benefit from monitoring the levels of the drug themselves instead of going to clinics for blood tests.
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Study: Gene testing helps get warfarin dose right
(AP) -- Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients' DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the tricky dose right and keep them out of the hospital.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Experimental Merck blood-thinner found effective
An experimental blood thinner developed by Merck and Portola Pharmaceuticals was found to be safe and effective in a mid-stage study presented Monday, with a lower incidence of serious bleeding than current drugs.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 15, 2010 |
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New drug shows promise for those with clotting disorders
A new study provides welcome news for patients with a common clotting disorder known as venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Doctors Warn Against Holiday Heart Attack Spike
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some studies indicate that death rates from heart attacks and stroke as well as non-heart-related causes spike during the holiday season.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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FDA says heartburn drugs can interfere with Plavix
(AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 17, 2009 |
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