Researchers at the European Society of Cardiology Congress reported that the blood thinner clopidogrel should replace aspirin as a routine pill for preventing heart attacks and strokes for people with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clopidogrel is a once-a-day pill that is available under the brand names Grepid and Plavix Two million prescription for aspirin ...

Aspirin is considered the cornerstone of secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. However, the evidence supporting aspirin was largely generated before the advent of modern pharmacological and ...

Durham, NC - The use of long-term clopidogrel in patients with non-ST-elevation ACS is disappointingly low, especially in those patients not treated with PCI, new data suggest [1]. The analysis, from ...

Durham, NC and Basel, Switzerland - Just in time for the FDA review of drug-eluting stent (DES) safety later this week, an observational study has been published online December 5, 2006 in the Journal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are reviewing the effectiveness in some patients of the widely used blood thinner Plavix, made by Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. The move ...

Following the successful completion of the NHS national pilot in April 2025, the highly anticipated first results assessing CYP2C19 genetic testing to guide clopidogrel use in ischaemic stroke and TIA ...