Health Tip: Before You Use a Blood Thinner
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(HealthDay News) -- Blood thinning medications are prescribed to help prevent heart attacks, strokes and blood vessel blockages caused by clots.
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(HealthDay News) -- Aspirin is often recommended by cardiologists for its blood-thinning properties, but the medication can lead to complications, including stomach problems.
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You think you've got this being-a-patient thing down pat: You put on your paper gown (opening in the back), flip through a dog-eared People magazine, have your blood pressure taken, see the doctor for five minutes, answer his or her questions, pay your co-pay and get back to work.
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By Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- A new anti-clotting drug for people having artery-opening procedures lowers the rate of complications, gets patients out of the hospital faster, and probably saves lives, a study finds.    And it saves money to boot, says Dr...
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The risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs may be higher for women using the birth-control patch instead of the pill, according to a warning on the product's label disclosed Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - People taking the blood-thinner  warfarin and a COX-2 type of painkiller are at heightened risk  of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, a population-based study  indicates.
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A drug widely used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart surgery appears to raise the risk of dying in the five years afterward by nearly 50 percent, an international study found.
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NEW YORK  - Heart patients who are anemic  before they undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)  may be at increased risk of death following the procedure,  according to a report in Journal of the American College of  Cardiology.
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Patients taking a combination of newer  blood pressure drugs have a much better chance of avoiding  heart attacks and stroke than those on older pills, a British  researcher leading a major clinical study said on Wednesday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Drug-coated heart stents are more likely to cause blood clots and other complications in certain high-risk cases and patients and doctors should be warned, a panel of medical experts advised on Friday.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb  has strengthened its warning about the risk of possible fatal bleeding linked to its blood thinner drug, Coumadin, adding a black box to its label, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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Two drugs are not always better than one when it comes to using blood thinners to treat clogged arteries in the legs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Popular painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can raise blood pressure and thus the risk of heart disease among men, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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CHICAGO  - A common hypertension medication appears to dramatically reduce the risk of complications or death in patients with heart disease, but without the high blood pressure that often goes hand-in-hand with the condition, a study said.
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Anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson will carry a new boxed warning advising doctors to choose the lowest dose needed to avoid blood transfusions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A study of the new anti-clotting drug idraparinux for preventing strokes was stopped early because of excess bleeding, a problem that has plagued the medication.
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If you catch a cold or get the flu this winter, be very careful if you take more than one medication to ease your symptoms. The two drugs could share ingredients that could pose a danger