More Blood Clot News

• Oral Drug Helps Prevent Clotting After Hip Replacement

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Extended use of the oral drug rivaroxaban helps prevent potentially ...

• New Anti-Clotting Pill Works Well in Trials

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug that could be one of the ...

• Sucking Out Clot Debris Helps Heart Attack Patients

  June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Vacuuming out loose pieces of clots before artery-opening treatment of ...

• Mixed Results for Anti-Clotting Drugs in Heart Attacks

  May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency treatment with two different anti-clotting drugs doesn't help much ...

• Clot-Busting Treatment Improves Bleeding Stroke Outcomes

  May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they have dramatically increased the survival rate for ...

• Blood-Thinner No Help for Dialysis Treatment

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- A major trial has dashed the hope that the clot-preventing ...

• Anti-Clotting Drug as Good as Aspirin at Stopping Second Stroke

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-clotting drug cilostazol is as good as aspirin at ...

• Device Approved to Assess Arterial Plaque

  April 29 (HealthDay News) -- The InfraReDx LipiScan NIR Catheter Imaging System, a device that ...

• FDA: Contaminated Heparin Found in 10 Countries

  April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Contaminated heparin products have now been found in at least ...

• FDA Identifies Contaminant in Blood-Thinning Drug

  March 19 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials say they've identified the contaminant found in ...

• Blood-Thinner Contaminant Traced to Chinese Plant

  March 17 (HealthDay News) -- The contaminant found in the blood-thinner heparin, which has been ...

• Heparin Problems Reported in Germany

  March 7 (HealthDay News) -- German health officials reported Thursday almost 100 cases of allergic ...

• FDA Finds Contaminant in Baxter's Recalled Heparin Products

  March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Tests have found a heparin-like contaminant in heparin blood-thinning products ...

• Genetic Test Predicts Response to Warfarin

  March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Variations of a gene that determines a person's sensitivity to ...

• Baxter Recalls Rest of Heparin Products

  Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Baxter Healthcare Corp., the pharmaceutical company at the center of ...

• Blood Clots in Legs, Lungs Predispose Patients to Repeat Episodes

  Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- People who develop a blood clot in their legs (deep ...

• Hemophilia Treatment Approved

  Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xyntha, a ...

• New Stroke Treatments Reduce Brain Damage, Improve Recovery

  Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Giving stroke patients a caffeine-alcohol mixture in concert with a ...

• Mix-Up Behind FDA's Failure to Inspect China Blood-Thinner Plant

  Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Due to a name mix-up, the U.S. Food and Drug ...