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Resident raises awareness for protein deficiency condition

Published August 27, 2008, 8:03 am, The Katy Times

Myra Cantu, a resident of Katy, is very passionate about making people more aware of a disease that affects over 20,000 people in the United States including her two sons, Nicholas, 3, and Gabriel 2. Hemophilia, a protein defiency in which the blood is not able to clot, has been in Cantu’s family for generations.

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Clot drug misses mark in knee surgery

Published August 27, 2008, 3:16 am, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

TRENTON, N.J. – A new type of blood thinner being developed by two top pharmaceutical companies didn’t meet its goal in a late-stage test of its ability to prevent certain dangerous blood clots, but research for other uses will continue, the companies said late Tuesday. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and partner Pfizer Inc.

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New type of anti-clotting drug misses testing goal

Published August 27, 2008, 12:16 am, Courier-Post

A new type of blood thinner being developed by two top pharmaceutical companies didn't meet its goal in a late-stage test of its ability to prevent certain dangerous blood clots, but research for other uses will continue, the companies said late...

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New type of anti-clotting drug misses testing goal

Published August 26, 2008, 3:16 pm, INO News

(AP:TRENTON, N.J.) A new type of blood thinner being developed by two top pharmaceutical companies didn't meet its goal in a late-stage test of its ability to prevent certain dangerous blood clots, but research for other uses will continue, the companies said late Tuesday.

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Bristol, Pfizer to delay clot drug after setback

Published August 26, 2008, 3:16 pm, Reuters via Yahoo! News

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday their apixaban blood clot preventer failed its primary goal in a late-stage trial, and that they no longer plan to seek marketing approval next year for the pill.

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Women May Stop Anticoagulants After Blood Clots

Published August 26, 2008, 3:14 am, Medical News Today

Women may safely discontinue oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) after 6 months of treatment following a first unprovoked venous blood clot (thromboembolism) if they have no or one risk factor, concludes a study of 646 participants in a multicentre prospective cohort study. Blood clots are common and a potentially fatal condition.

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Women may stop anticoagulants after blood clots

Published August 25, 2008, 2:21 pm, PhysOrg

Women may safely discontinue oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) after 6 months of treatment following a first unprovoked venous blood clot (thromboembolism) if they have no or one risk factor, concludes a study of 646 participants in a multicentre prospective cohort study.

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Women may stop anticoagulants after blood clots

Published August 25, 2008, 2:12 pm, EurekAlert!

Women may safely discontinue oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) after 6 months of treatment following a first unprovoked venous blood clot (thromboembolism) if they have no or one risk factor, concludes a study of 646 participants in a multicenter prospective cohort study.

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Brits Infected by HIV-Tainted Blood Describe Anger

Published August 25, 2008, 10:20 am, Fox News

Some of the 5,700 victims of a tainted blood scandal in Britain are speaking out.

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Victims of Britain's tainted blood scandal speak

Published August 25, 2008, 6:22 am, PhysOrg

(AP) -- Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection - and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news.

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