There are some drugs that seem to have been around forever. A perfect example is heparin, a traditional anticoagulant. Discovered by accident in 1915 by a second-year medical student at Johns Hopkins ...

The use of antiplatelet and/or anticoagulant medications has increased due to irregular diets, limited physical activity, and ...

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 ...

“Do not take other medications without checking with your doctor or pharmacist.” That warning, standard on every little orange prescription bottle, is more than friendly advice. As a primary care ...

The anticoagulant reversal drug Andexxa was voluntarily pulled from the US market after failing to secure full FDA approval ...

Patients experiencing head trauma who were taking older classes of anticoagulants and antiplatelets had significantly higher rates of delayed intracranial hemorrhage (DH) and death from DH compared ...

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 ...

According to a new study, current evidence suggests that stopping antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy before simple dental ...