Fourteen years after AstraZeneca’s blood thinner Brilinta reached the market and now faces generic competition, the data that ...

The Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating the safety of the anticlotting drug Plavix following studies suggesting Plavix's effectiveness may be undercut in patients who also take ...

Plavix is a prescription drug used to help manage certain heart-related conditions in adults. Learn about Plavix's more common, mild, and serious side effects and how to manage them.

Like other drugs, Plavix may have interactions. Some interactions occur because one substance causes another substance to have a different effect than expected. For example, sometimes alcohol ...

Plavix (clopidogrel) is a brand-name oral tablet prescribed to help lower the risk of heart attack and stroke in certain adults. Plavix has interactions with some other drugs and certain supplements.

Stent patients who take the blood thinner Plavix along with certain heartburn drugs may face a greater risk of heart attack, stroke and other dangerous events, according to a study released Tuesday.

In both cases, FDA said patients may have trouble metabolizing Plavix, reducing its ability to prevent deadly blood clots. Plavix had global sales of $7.3 billion in 2007.

Doctors have expressed surprise at studies indicating some common heartburn drugs can interfere with Plavix, the world's most-widely used drug to prevent blood clots, WSJ's Alicia Mundy reports ...

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Aug. 5 -- MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The widely used anti-clotting drug Plavix appears to have a stronger effect in people who smoke, a study indicates. Plavix (clopidogrel) is often given ...

A judge in Hawaii on Tuesday ordered Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi to pay more than $916 million to the state for failing to warn non-white patients of health risks from its blood thinner Plavix ...