Overview: Heparin is a blood thinner that is used to prevent or treat blood clots. It may be injected under the skin or into a blood vessel. The most common side effects are irritation at the ...

Heparin injectable solution only comes as a generic drug. It doesn’t have a brand-name version. Heparin comes in two forms. One is an injectable solution, which you inject under your skin. The other ...

Heparin is an injectable anticoagulant that is used to prevent the formation of blood clots in the vessels. It is a highly-sulfated glycosaminoglycan and the most highly negatively charged biological ...

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.

Researchers moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed drug in hospitals, yet cell-culture-based production of ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

The contamination of the widely used lifesaving anticoagulant drug heparin in 2007 has drawn renewed attention to the challenges that are associated with the characterization, quality control and ...

The pig is king in China. While North Americans and Europeans prefer to eat beef or chicken, pork is the meat of choice in China. In 2014, China slaughtered more than 700 million pigs, roughly one ...