In a large-scale study and an upcoming clinical trial, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health address one of the trickiest issues in prescribing medicine—how to quickly optimize ...

In current practice, physicians treat a patient with idiopathic VT with a 5- to 10-day course of heparin, followed by 3 to 12 months of full-dose warfarin (target INR 2 to 3), the authors note, ...

Feb. 24, 2003 — The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health stopped the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism (PREVENT) trial almost two years ...

Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients’ DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the tricky dose right and keep them ...

A new study finds that genetic testing can help determine the safest dose of the blood thinner warfarin, with fewer side effects, in patients having joint replacement surgery. A new study finds that ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A new system for predicting the proper dose of the blood thinner warfarin could help doctors do a better job of preventing dangerous blood clots and serious bleeding, researchers ...

Patients taking the blood thinner warfarin have been told that it should be taken at night, but a new study found the time of day doesn't matter. "Whether warfarin is taken in the morning, or the ...

A study of long-term, low-dose warfarin to prevent the recurrence of the blood clotting disorders deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism resulted in such a high degree of benefit to the ...

Prescription_writing A retrospective cohort study in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy found a clinically significant decrease in warfarin dose-response with concurrent hepatitis C treatments, especially ...

Three of the subjects (N-20, N-22, N-23) were normal adult men, eighteen to fifty-two years of age. One patient (P-1) was a fifty-eight-year-old man with coronary-artery disease. The other (P-3) was a ...

Changing dosage over the phone A clinician makes a dosage change for a patient during a telephone call, which leads to a lawsuit. Dr H, 53, an internist, and her nurse practitioner, Ms B, 45, had been ...