First-in-class compound proves safe, tolerable in preventing blood clots
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 18:35
in Health & Medicine
A new drug derived from magnolia trees appears to be able to uncouple two important functions of thrombin in blood clot formation and may offer a way to better control the potentially dangerous complications of bleeding and clot formation during procedures to open blocked coronary arteries, say researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).