(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is alerting doctors that a widely used blood thinner has been reformulated to improve its safety, though the change could open the door to dosing errors. The ...

Oct. 2 -- THURSDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials on Thursday announced new manufacturing standards for the widely used blood-thinner heparin that will decrease the drug's potency ...

Heparin injectable solution only comes as a generic drug. It doesn’t have a brand-name version. Heparin comes in two forms. One is an injectable solution, which you inject under your skin. The other ...

Purpose. The performance of a weight-based dosing protocol for unfractionated heparin (UFH) infusions using antifactor Xa monitoring was evaluated. Methods. The first 50 patients to receive a UFH ...

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 ...

Drug resistance is defined as the lack of expected response to a standard therapeutic dose of a drug or as resistance resulting from biologic changes in the target, as occurs in antibiotic resistance.

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration is alerting doctors that a widely used blood thinner has been reformulated to improve its safety, though the change could open the door to dosing errors. The FDA said ...

The common practice of administering heparin soon after cardioembolic stroke is associated with an increased risk for serious bleeding, according to an article in the Archives of Neurology. However, ...