(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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Getty Images. The intent of the document is to help reduce heparin product overdose errors caused by misinterpretation of the drug strength displayed in the labeling. The Food and Drug ...

Now reported in the Journal are the results of an international, multiplatform, randomized clinical trial that combined data from patients who were enrolled in one conventional randomized trial (ACTIV ...

Heparin started in the ambulance or emergency department (ED) makes it more likely a patient with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) will present to the cath lab without a ...