Regarding the patient who takes a 5-mg warfarin tablet five or six days a week and a half tablet the other days in order to reach a certain international normalized ratio (INR) Item 102-3), what ...

(Reuters) - Gene analysis failed in a U.S. clinical trial to help doctors select better doses of warfarin, the widely used blood-thinner, which can cause dangerous bleeding if doses are too high and ...

Lower doses needed as renal function declines. Renal function plays a role in warfarin response, according to a study conducted at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The study found that ...

One doctor offers answers to your questions about genetic testing and Coumadin. Aug. 17, 2007 — -- Thursday night on "World News," we asked for your questions regarding the new genetic testing ...

(HealthDay News) — For warfarin-treated patients, carbamazepine co-treatment is associated with subtherapeutic anticoagulative effect and increased warfarin dose requirements, according to a study ...

East Brunswick, NJ - Savient Pharmaceuticals has sent a letter to healthcare professionals notifying them of an important drug interaction between Oxandrin ® (oxandrolone), a synthetic derivative of ...

NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - A new crop of medicines to prevent stroke and blood clots could emerge within several years, easing dangers and hardships for patients and creating blockbuster sales for ...

What is the best approach to a patient who, after initial heparinization, does not respond to large doses of habitual oral anticoagulants? Please consider that most of the patients that I treat are ...