Overview: Warfarin is used to help prevent and treat blood clots, as well as complications from blood clots. It also helps lower the risk of complications after a heart attack. The most common ...

August 10, 2011 (Durham, North Carolina) — A major clinical trial showing that rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Bayer/Johnson & Johnson) is noninferior to dose-adjusted warfarin for the prevention of ...

Although the available literature suggests that warfarin is superior to aspirin, aspirin is currently the more widely used drug. We studied the efficacy and safety of warfarin, aspirin ...

Q: Our doctor took my husband off warfarin cold turkey after a number of years. Is this harmful? He’s 89 years old and has had a couple of strokes in the past. A: Warfarin is an anticoagulant ...

Many patients with the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and recurrent thrombosis receive doses of warfarin adjusted to achieve an international normalized ratio (INR) of more than 3.0. However ...

The anti-clotting drug warfarin, commonly known by the brand name Coumadin, is no longer recommended for the treatment of atrial fibrillation except for a select subset of patients, according to ...

Almost one million Brits have been issued a caution regarding certain supplements, as they could react badly to a medication ...

Specifically, researchers found, patients on the clot-preventing drug warfarin showed a higher dementia risk if their blood levels of the medication were frequently too high or too low.

Sept. 19 (UPI) --Further evidence shows that it's best not to double up on blood thinners by taking aspirin along with commonly prescribed warfarin and other blood thinners to lessen the risk of ...

Warfarin (Coumadin) is part of a group of drugs called anticoagulants. They help stop your blood from getting thicker, or “clotting.” You might hear these meds called “blood thinners.” ...

“Warfarin,” the generic name for a prescription blood thinner first put on the market in the 1950s, might be familiar from television ads for more recent drugs. These ads claim that newer blood ...

Biochemist Karl Paul Link and his team developed the life-saving medication warfarin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Doug Moe's new biography depicts a leading world scientist who also ...