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 ...

Credit: Shutterstock. Researchers related maximal ACT to the risk of major bleeding in 14,634 patients undergoing TR or TF PCI with unfractionated heparin monotherapy. HealthDay News — Higher maximal ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered three genes that could shed light on the genetic causes of blood-clotting disorders such as thrombosis and some types of stroke. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists have shed new light -- literally -- on a possible way to starve cancer tumors or prevent side effects from a wide range of drugs. A lock-like molecule designed by University ...

With each passing day we learn more about SARS-CoV-2 and what it does to our cells and our bodies. It seems, according at least to anecdotal reports, that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can induce serious ...