Otago Daily Times It was quite heartbreaking really," he said. Adding to the family's distress was news Ms Paitai had been given an extra dose of the blood thinning medication heparin due to a staff error. While a coroner's inquest found the error, caused after a nurse ... and more »
Medgadget.com In this work we measured occlusion times and thrombus detachment for a range of initial shear rates (500, 1500, 4000, and 10000 s−1) and therapy concentrations (0–2.4 µM for eptifibatide, 0–2 mM for acetyl-salicylic acid (ASA), 3.5–40 Units/L for ...
Drug Discovery & Development The Hokusai-VTE study was designed to reflect clinical practice using a flexible treatment duration of three to 12 months, including initial...
HealthCanal.com CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC School of Medicine, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a synthetic form of low-molecular-weight heparin , the effects of which can be quickly reversed in ...
Healio Patients with previous heparin -induced thrombocytopenia, or HIT, who were re-exposed to heparin demonstrated a low risk for recurrent HIT, yet the development of strong heparin -independent platelet-activating antibodies increased that risk, according ...
Oneida Dispatch Researchers from RPI and University of North Carolina (UNC) created synthetic form of low molecular weight heparin , an anticoagulant commonly used around the world to prevent dangerous blood clots. The synthetically-produced drug is safer and can be ... and more »
RedOrbit Low-molecular-weight heparin is commonly used in surgeries to prevent dangerous blood clots. But when patients experience the other extreme – uncontrolled bleeding – in response to low-molecular-weight heparin , there is no antidote. Now researchers at ...
ScienceBlog.com (blog) Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have created a synthetic form of low-molecular-weight heparin that can be reversed in cases of overdose and would be safer for patients with poor ... and more »
EurekAlert (press release) Prions are infectious agents responsible for neurodegenerative diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalitis (commonly known as "mad cow disease") and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans. Since the discovery in the 60s that an incurable and fatal ... and more »
