When you have deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in a vein deep inside your body, doctors try to keep the clot from getting bigger and stop new clots from forming. One of their top priorities is ...
A phase I study of axitinib (AG-013736), a potent inhibitor of VEGFRs, in combination with gemcitabine (GEM) in patients (pts) with advanced pancreatic cancer No significant financial relationships to ...
Clinical guidelines recommend low-molecular-weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis in patients with fractures, but trials of its effectiveness as compared with aspirin are lacking. In this pragmatic, ...
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune-mediated platelet disorder caused by antibodies that target complexes of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin. HIT has been characterized as a ...
Blood thinners don’t really thin your blood. They just interrupt your body’s natural clotting process. Warfarin and heparin act on different parts of this process. Doctors usually prescribe warfarin ...
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Scientists at the University of California-San Diego say they have moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed ...
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The Ohio biotechnology firm Optimvia Pharmaceuticals says it has developed a cost-effective synthetic method to produce large quantities of heparin, which is used to make a common blood thinner. And ...