The risks of anticoagulants, which are associated with about 7% of all medication errors among hospitalized patients, can be reduced by actions such as using standardized dosing protocols that are ...

Drugs used for prostate cancer may not increase bleeding or clotting risks when used with blood thinners, thus providing ...

For patients with atrial fibrillation, the use of oral anticoagulant therapy to prevent stroke is limited by the risk of bleeding. Left atrial appendage closure is considered for patients who are ...

Atrial fibrillation treatment with device closure matched anticoagulants and reduced bleeding risk. Discover what this means for AF care.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Patients taking oral anticoagulants are at risk of low bone mass and bone quality, and those taking warfarin ...

Drugmakers have turned new generation anticoagulants into blockbusters as treatments for strokes and heart attacks, but one area of care where they have made little progress is for treating atrial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The GARFIELD-AF prospective, multinational, observational study included 25,551 adults who were recently ...

The makers of novel anticoagulant (NOAC) drugs have done well. A neutral observer might think these drugs are the next penicillin. The ads are everywhere, no medium spared. Influential thought leaders ...

New-generation oral anticoagulants carry a lower risk of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) than does warfarin, a new systematic review and meta-analysis shows. Chatterjee et al. analysed six studies, ...

Analysis of data on people with atrial fibrillation using anticoagulants and warfarin found them both to lower the risk of testing positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 54 years old, and I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation that comes and goes. I was prescribed Xarelto, but since I am scheduled to have a colonoscopy done soon, I asked my ...