Blood-thinning drug linked to heart attack risk

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 01:00 in Health & Medicine

Taking the recently approved medicine dabigatran could mean a slightly higher risk compared with the drug warfarin, a study suggests.People who take the recently approved blood-thinning medication dabigatran could have a slightly increased risk of heart attack compared with people who use the old standby drug warfarin, new research suggests.

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