LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today the immediate availability in the United States of Heparin Sodium Injection (5,000 USP units per mL) in the company’s Simplist™ ready ...

Cleveland, OH - It may not be necessary to give heparin with Gp IIb/IIIa blockers in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), according to a new analysis of the PURSUIT study published in the ...

Edinburgh, Scotland - A new analysis of individual patient data from the five largest trials of heparin in acute ischemic stroke has not been able to define a strategy that can reliably select a group ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC—For STEMI patients undergoing PCI, pretreatment with a loading dose of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact improves spontaneous reperfusion of the infarct-related artery ...

(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 ...

Drug Involved in Errors: Heparin. Includes heparin, available generically, and newer brand-name versions like Aventis ' Lovenox and Pharmacia 's Fragmin. Indication: Blood thinner. Used to treat and ...

Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City receive injections of the blood thinner heparin for weeks after the procedure ...

People hospitalized with certain rare blood cell disorders frequently receive a treatment that is associated with a two- to fivefold increase in death, according to a new study that reviewed hospital ...

A chemically modified version of the common blood thinner heparin may be the first promising method of preventing the harmful cascade of destruction to brain tissue that commonly follows traumatic ...