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New Blood Thinner Tops Plavix in Trials

But prasugrel also adds risk of bleeding to death

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 5, 2007 9:00 AM CST

(Newser) – An experimental new blood-thinner looks like real competition for top-selling anti-clotting drug Plavix, after proving more effective at preventing heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related death in a recent trial, the AP reports. But “there is a price to pay” for increased effectiveness, wrote one...   Read full story »

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