Potential adverse events with new anticoagulants

Since 2010, at least 8,000 deaths have been linked to three of the new anticoagulants compared with 700 for warfarin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today report. The publications noted that there were around three times as many prescriptions for warfarin compared with the new anticoagulants last year. Read more at the link below:

Tim Casey,

Executive Editor

Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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