February 17, 2010 (Paris, France) — A new-point-of care test that can be used in the cath lab to monitor anticoagulation levels of enoxaparin (Lovenox, Sanofi-Aventis) has been shown to give reliable ...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicare Part B will now cover and pay for meter training, equipment and supplies for all long-term warfarin users who monitor their prothrombin time at home ...

There are several lab tests for hemophilia. However, the main tests detect the clotting activity of factors VIII and IX, which are proteins in the blood. Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder in which an ...

In patients with NSTE-ACS on heparin monotherapy during PCI, lower activated clotting time (ACT) values do not predict bleeding events but do correlate with higher risk of ischemic events, according ...

IMPAIRMENT of the hemostatic mechanism is a common experience in active disease of the liver. Several recent reports 1–4 have stressed the multiplicity of plasma clotting factors that may be deficient ...

Rockville, MD - The FDA has approved a test that can help predict a person's likelihood of developing ischemic stroke. The assay, called the F5/F2/MTHFR Nucleic Acid Test (Nanosphere, Northbrook, IL), ...

A million Americans who have had heart attacks or strokes caused by blood clots now take anti-clotting drugs regularly to cut down the danger of recurrences. But their blood takes so much longer to ...