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
To prevent these complications in people with known AFib, clinicians often prescribe anticoagulants -- drugs that prevent blood clots -- as well as other lifestyle and medical therapies.
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023
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
In the two previous deaths tied to lecanemab, neurologists say the patients’ use of anticoagulants worsened brain swelling and bleeding.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 21, 2022
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