BELLEVILLE, Ill. (CN) - Baxter Healthcare diluted its blood thinning drug Heparin with a similar chemical that was not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a class action claims in St.

Heparin was the first anticoagulant agent to be discovered and isolated for medical use, and is one of the oldest drugs still to be in widespread clinical use. Indeed, heparin remains on the WHO Model ...

When you have deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in a vein deep inside your body, doctors try to keep the clot from getting bigger and stop new clots from forming. One of their top priorities is ...

Baxter ($BAX) has had a series of recalls in the last year, including more than 600,000 units of saline solution that it began recalling a couple of months ago. Now ...

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 ...

We evaluated two patients in whom heparin-induced thrombocytopenia developed after orthopedic surgery, with the delayed-onset type in Patient 1 and the spontaneous type in Patient 2 (Figure 1). The ...

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 ...

A brief overview of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is discussed. Following any exposure to unfractionated heparin or low-molecular-weight ...

Scientists at the University of California-San Diego say they have moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed ...

Scientists have explained how contaminated batches of the blood-thinner heparin were able to slip past traditional safety screens and kill dozens of patients recently in the United States and Germany.