Compared with aspirin, apixaban lowers incidence of nonlacunar covert infarcts in patients with cryptogenic stroke and atrial cardiopathy. Among patients with cryptogenic stroke and atrial cardiopathy ...

Are frail older adults with atrial fibrillation (AF) better off sticking with warfarin, the tried-and-true vitamin K antagonist? Maybe not, according to new data in the Journal of the American College ...

Last week, Natco Pharma filed six lawsuits in the Delhi High Court against Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk for its popular anti-obesity drug semaglutide, sold as Wegovy in India. The Hyderabad-based ...

Factor V Leiden (FVL) is a change in your genes that affects one of the clotting factors in your blood and keeps your body's blood-clotting process from working right. It can cause a disorder called ...

AstraZeneca's anticoagulant reversal agent Andexxa was given an accelerated approval by the FDA in 2018, but the company's plan to get that upgraded to a full approval is facing some pushback. At an ...

Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer have launched an online programme to sell their blockbuster anticoagulant Eliquis directly to patients, following in the footsteps of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk in a ...

Carriers of the APOE ε4 allele had a higher risk for intracranial hemorrhage on apixaban, highlighting the potential for personalized, genetics-based approaches to anticoagulant therapy. Carriers of ...

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.H.K., D.K., D.E.S., K.J.L.). Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA (D.H.K., D.K ...

ARCADIA (Atrial Cardiopathy and Antithrombotic Drugs in Prevention After Cryptogenic Stroke), a secondary stroke prevention study comparing apixaban versus aspirin for cryptogenic stroke and ...

Continuous cardiac monitoring detects brief, asymptomatic, heart rhythm abnormalities in one-third of older individuals and these symptoms are associated with an increased risk of stroke. The ARTESiA ...

Taking blood-thinning medicines is crucial to prevent blood clots in the legs from traveling to the lungs. If you can't take blood thinners, a doctor might use a special filter to stop clots from ...