Warfarin oral tablet is available as both a generic and brand-name drug. Brand name: Jantoven (Coumadin was discontinued in April 2020). Warfarin comes only as a tablet you take by mouth. Warfarin is ...

Warfarin is a medication that, with few exceptions, is dosed to effect. When the INR does not respond as predicted, it is important to consider possible causes before the warfarin dose is adjusted.

Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients’ DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the tricky dose right and keep them ...

A world wide team of researchers addressed one of the trickiest drugs to prescribe -- the blood-thinner warfarin. Each patient's optimal dose varies widely, is hard to predict, and is crucial for his ...

Researchers have now found all the genes the determine the dosage of the blood-thinning drug warfarin. Researchers at Uppsala University, together with colleagues at the Karolinska Institute and the ...

The gene-guided dosing strategy of warfarin generally leads to over-dose in patients at doses lower than 2 mg/kg, and only 50% of individual variability in daily stable doses can be explained. In this ...

HealthDay News — For warfarin-treated patients, carbamazepine co-treatment is associated with subtherapeutic anticoagulative effect and increased warfarin dose requirements, according to a study ...