A nursing home in Gibson City received three fines for violations according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, ...

Longevity is increasing worldwide, and Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at some of the most recent clinical studies on the subject of gerontology ...

Anticoagulation is the mainstay of treatment ... medical treatment, and nursing care issues. Denise M. Lemke is a nurse practitioner in Interventional NeuroRadiology at the Medical College of ...

Eliquis is a brand name for apixaban, a prescription oral anticoagulant tablet ... an individual’s stay in the hospital or a skilled nursing facility because of an AFib diagnosis.

A subsample of nursing home and hospital records was reviewed for up ... function (doubling of aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase) or over-anticoagulation (international normalised ...

Opens in a new tab or window A population-based cohort study found an association between bleeding events in Afib patients on oral anticoagulation and cancer diagnoses. In cases where cancer was ...

The anticoagulants apixaban and dabigatran do not cause more bleeding than aspirin when treating stroke or atrial fibrillation, according to an analysis of randomized clinical trials published in ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of nine trials comparing non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants with low-dose aspirin revealed a link between rivaroxaban and higher rates of major bleeding and ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Direct oral anticoagulants were associated with lower risks of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism and bleeding ...

Western Drug sold its final retail prescriptions on Wednesday after serving customers from at the least the 1970s, according to Kari Vondra, co-owner for the past 20 years.

AstraZeneca's anticoagulant reversal agent Andexxa was given an accelerated approval by the FDA in 2018, but the company's plan to get that upgraded to a full approval is facing some pushback.