Overview: Warfarin is used to help prevent and treat blood clots, as well as complications from blood clots. It also helps lower the risk of complications after a heart attack. The most common side ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A new system for predicting the proper dose of the blood thinner warfarin could help doctors do a better job of preventing dangerous blood clots and serious bleeding, researchers ...

Daily warfarin dosing requirements clearly decrease with advancing age. To examine the relation between age and warfarin dosing, researchers analyzed data from 101 U.S. sites that were participating ...

More than 8 million people in the U.S. take blood thinners, also called anticoagulants. Many are prescribed the drugs after ...

November 22, 2011 — Patients receiving long-term, steady-dose warfarin therapy who have had stable international normalized ratios (INRs) for at least 6 months can safely go 12 weeks between dose ...

Regarding the patient who takes a 5-mg warfarin tablet five or six days a week and a half tablet the other days in order to reach a certain international normalized ratio (INR) Item 102-3), what ...

Pantoprazole can lower how much of certain HIV drugs is absorbed, which reduces their effectiveness. When taken with warfarin, pantoprazole may increase the risk of bleeding, so your doctor might ...