News tagged with blood thinners

Related topics: patients , blood clots

Designing drugs and their antidotes together improves patient care

Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately - because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newer Anti-Clotting Medication Found to Be More Effective

(PhysOrg.com) -- A large head-to-head study of two anti-clotting medications for heart patients has found that the investigational compound ticagrelor (Brilinta) was more effective at reducing cardiovascular death than the ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hope on finding better blood thinners

Warfarin, one of the most inconvenient, dangerous and disliked drugs in the world, has remained vitally important for more than 50 years.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0