On December 21, 1933, biochemists Stuart Mudd and Earl Flosdorf tasted success for the first time in their efforts to prepare dried human blood serum. While it remained a novelty until the onset of ...

Q: After getting a pacemaker, my 90-year-old mother was diagnosed with A-fib. She resisted taking a blood thinner for stroke risk but finally agreed. Not 90 minutes after the first pill, she had a ...

BERLIN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - German pharma company Bayer (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab reported positive study results for its anticoagulant asundexian on Sunday, two years after a research setback for the ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Austin Police Association in Austin, Texas, in September 2020. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) MARSHALL, Texas (CN) — The makers of the ...

DALLAS, Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- McKool Smith and The Lanier Law Firm, along with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the State of Texas against pharmaceutical ...

Shares of Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) fell ~5% in the premarket on Friday after the company said that a Phase 3 trial for milvexian, an anticoagulant it is advancing with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), is ...

Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson have stopped a phase 3 anticoagulant trial early for futility, closing off one avenue to market for a molecule tipped to generate multibillion-dollar sales.

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

A minimally invasive heart procedure to correct irregular heart rhythms called catheter ablation may reduce the risk of stroke enough that some patients can discontinue blood thinners, according to a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2010 and remained in stage 2 with no effects until 2022. In the interim, he was also diagnosed with atrial ...

TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Japanese researchers say they have found a pill that works as well as existing medication to prevent blood clots after heart valve surgery, with fewer trips ...

Inhaled nebulized unfractionated heparin (UFH) added to standard care reduced the odds of intubation or death in nonintubated patients hospitalized with COVID compared with standard care alone. It ...