Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis called for the development of pediatric investigative ...

Mar. 31 -- SUNDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- In heart attack patients who had angioplasty, the anticoagulant drugs abciximab and tirofiban produced similar outcomes for certain cardiac measures ...

For the prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation, the novel anticoagulant drugs dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim), rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Bayer Pharma/Janssen Pharmaceuticals), apixaban ...

May 2, 2012 — A retrospective analysis of the data from the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once Daily Oral Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor Compared With Vitamin K Antagonism for Prevention of Stroke and Embolism ...

While the three drugs accounted for less than 10% of all anticoagulant prescriptions, they are linked to more than 90% of deaths reported to the FDA since 2010, the analysis found. The numbers are ...

The makers of novel anticoagulant (NOAC) drugs have done well. A neutral observer might think these drugs are the next penicillin. The ads are everywhere, no medium spared. Influential thought leaders ...

A practical guide on the use of the new oral anticoagulants (NOACs) has been produced. A guide was needed to summarize existing information on different drugs, to answer clinical questions that fall ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have shown a link between which type of oral anticoagulant (blood-thinning medication) a patient takes to prevent a stroke and increased risks of kidney ...

An alternate possibility is that anticoagulant drugs in some way improve the collateral circulation supplied by small arterial anastomoses after occlusion of a major cerebral vessel. Recent ...

New research presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that use of warfarin, a vitamin K drug widely prescribed to prevent blood clots, is associated ...

Researchers from Heidelberg University in Germany have found that anticoagulant drugs that inhibit thrombin (an enzyme used for clot formation) reduce the number of brain metastases (cancerous growths ...

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