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Combining Plavix with alcohol, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, SSRIs, or SNRIs may increase the risk of bleeding. It’s important that you talk with your doctor about safe medication consumption levels and ...

LOS ANGELES Extreme complications from Type 1 diabetes and renal failure put 55-year-old Danny Parr in the hospital. But medical exams revealed he also has significant coronary artery disease, so he's ...

Nov. 18 -- TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Combining the antacid Prilosec with the popular blood thinner Plavix (clopidogrel) can cut the effectiveness of Plavix by half, putting patients at risk ...

UNC researchers developed testing to detect the genetic markers for the 2 to 4 percent of patients who don't respond to Plavix or others who are poor or intermediate responders. A year and a half ago, ...

Plavix (clopidogrel) can cause side effects that range from mild to serious. More common side effects include bruising, bleeding, and itching. If side effects from Plavix become difficult to tolerate, ...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov 15 (Reuters) - Heart attack patients in need of emergency procedures were less likely to suffer further serious cardiovascular events, including death, when given AstraZeneca's ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with heart failure who have had a heart attack but not had artery-clearing angioplasty treatment are less likely to die early if they take Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers ...

Drug developers have long trumpeted the potential of personalized medicine to revolutionize disease treatment by targeting new drugs to patients most likely to benefit. Now, the tangle of lawsuits ...

Clopidogrel is prescribed to help prevent cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke in certain adults. It’s a generic medication that's available as the brand-name drug Plavix. The drug ...

People at risk of a cardiac event after a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) stent procedure who received long-term antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel were 29% less likely to die than those ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle its lawsuit over the efficacy and safety of the blood thinner Plavix, the state attorney general’s office ...