anticoagulants
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Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Which is why slower-acting substances, mainly anticoagulants - drugs that stop blood forming into clots - are used.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
"But refining the risks of brain clots and bleeds from anticoagulants and using this information to make the best treatment choice could improve treatment safety for people with heart disease."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
Luckily, physicians had already stocked the I.S.S. with a 40-day emergency supply of anticoagulants, among other medications, just in case.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023
The consent form’s language on anticoagulants was also less ominous than the revised version, written for an extension phase in which all trial participants could elect to receive lecanemab if they met certain inclusion criteria.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 30, 2022
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