Heparin is an injectable anticoagulant that is used to prevent the formation of blood clots in the vessels. It is a highly-sulfated glycosaminoglycan and the most highly negatively charged biological ...

Drug resistance is defined as the lack of expected response to a standard therapeutic dose of a drug or as resistance resulting from biologic changes in the target, as occurs in antibiotic resistance.

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a clinicopathologic syndrome in which one or more clinical events, usually thrombocytopenia or thrombosis, are temporally related to heparin administration ...

Many questions about the heparin allergy outbreak remain unanswered. Does the heparin allergy originate from a single plant reflecting a quality problem? The implicated lots of heparin appear to ...

Heparin injectable solution only comes as a generic drug. It doesn’t have a brand-name version. Heparin comes in two forms. One is an injectable solution, which you inject under your skin. The other ...

Blood thinners don’t really thin your blood. They just interrupt your body’s natural clotting process. Warfarin and heparin act on different parts of this process. Doctors usually prescribe warfarin ...

Heparin is a glycosaminoglycan that has long been used clinically as an anticoagulant. However, evidence indicating that this complex molecule possesses therapeutic potential in various unrelated ...

Are you taking Heparin? Are you aware of the dangers of combining Heparin with certain foods, herbs, or alcohol? Drug-food-interactions are seldom discussed but can lead to undesirable side effects ...

Scientists have explained how contaminated batches of the blood-thinner heparin were able to slip past traditional safety screens and kill dozens of patients recently in the United States and Germany.

Actor Dennis Quaid's twins almost died after being given huge dose of heparin. Dec. 5, 2007 — -- Actor Dennis Quaid is suing a drug company after his newborn twins were accidentally given 1,000 ...

Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly sued a leading blood-thinner manufacturer Tuesday, saying the labeling and design of the product led to a massive overdose of their newborn twins last month at ...