Blood thinners are medications that stop or slow the formation of blood clots, keep clots from getting bigger, or prevent clots that have already formed from traveling to other parts of the body.

Baxter International hastemporarily halted production of certain heparin vials amid reports of seriousadverse reactions to the widely used, injectable blood thinner. Baxter has notbroadened a prior ...

July 1 (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said it was voluntarily recalling six lots of the injectable version of its blood thinner, Coumadin, in the United States, after particulate matter was found ...

There are few things more exciting for researchers than to mount and complete a clinical trial that could change the practice of medicine and save lives. That’s what we experienced when The New ...

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The FDA has continued to issue safety alerts and investigate events surrounding the injectable blood thinner heparin (FDA News, April 2008) and its “clear link” to 81 deaths in U.S. patients who ...