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Original Source: Heparin Sodium [Sagent Pharmaceticals]
Heparin Sodium Injection, USPDerived from Porcine Intestinal MucosaPreserved with Benzyl Alcohol
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2.8 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes in the UK and a further 850,000 people are undiagnosed. Diabetes is characterized by high blood glucose levels, resulting from a prob...
Becton Dickinson is one of the top 10 medical device companies in the world. It reported annual sales of just over $7 billion in 2010, and quarterly trends have seen encouraging increases. Some of...
Therapies targeting TNF have already demonstrated efficacy across a wide range of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, ankylosing spondulitis, psoria...
Psoriasis is a common skin condition affecting 2-3% of the population of the United Kingdom, where the skins replacement process is sped taking 2-6 days instead of the usual 21 - 28 days for the rep...
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To address safety concerns about the expression of drug strength on labels for heparin sodium injections and heparin lock flush solutions, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has revised its curre...
New Medical Tool Could Help Surgeons Carrying Out Complex Procedures In The Operating Theatre
Researchers have developed a dye which provides a quick and accurate method of checking heparin levels in the blood. Heparin is an important anti-coagulant which has a significant role in major surger...
Hepatitis outbreak is traced to contaminated needles and barber shop razors, study shows
A village in the Ernakulam district in Kerala, India, has experienced a serious outbreak of hepatitis B virus, which has been traced to injections with contaminated needles and transmission in barber....
Protamine–heparin complex antibodies raise concerns
Almost a third of patients treated with protamine for heparin reversal during cardiopulmonary bypass develop antibodies to circulating protamine–heparin complexes, study findings suggest.
Pill using ultrasound may replace daily needles
(Medical Xpress) -- For patients who need daily injections to stay on course, being able instead to take their medication orally would help improve patients’ quality of life and perhaps even outc...
Five Years Later, Legacy Biologics Still Face ‘Next Heparin’ Risks
Several factors continue to slow efforts to modernize legacy biologics’ compendial monographs against fake ingredients like the ones someone put in heparin in 2008. Hyaluronate, the ‘poster childâ...
[Review] Heparin-induced skin lesions
Heparins are widely used for prophylaxis and treatment of thromboembolic diseases. Besides bleeding complications, heparin-induced skin lesions are the most frequent unwanted adverse effects of subcut...
[Comment] Anticoagulant therapy in acute brain ischaemia
Thrombosis plays an important part in acute ischaemic stroke, and antithrombotic therapies are a logical approach to treatment. Heparin has been advocated for acute stroke since the 1950s, and by the...
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Bacterial contamination of needles after intravitreal injection in Paraguay.
PURPOSE: The study was designed to prospectively evaluate the bacterial contamination of needles used for intravitreal injection during surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between December 2007 and Decembe...
Dermal necrosis as cutaneous manifestation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia II?
Most of the rare cases of skin necrosis following heparin injections are associated with the immunologically mediated form of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia II (HIT II). We present a 62-year- old wo...
Introduction: Patients with diabetes who receive insulin therapy often fail to meet their targets for metabolic control with insulin injections. Their inadequate glycemic control may be related to inc...
Heparin mapping using heparin lyases and the generation of a novel low molecular weight heparin.
Seven pharmaceutical heparins were investigated by oligosaccharide mapping by digestion with heparin lyase 1, 2, or 3, followed by high performance liquid chromatography analysis. The structure of one...
Organochlorine Compounds in Pine Needles from Croatia.
Levels of seven organochlorine pesticides and 17 congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were analysed in pine needles collected at eight sites along eastern Adriatic coast (Croatia). The concen...
