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University of Leeds

Research opens door to new thrombosis treatments

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, January 1st, 2010

The latest findings on how blood clots form could open the door to the development of new and better-targeted drugs for patients at risk of strokes or heart attacks.

Many of these patients currently take anticoagulant drugs such as Warfarin, which lower the risk of heart attacks or strokes by reducing the blood's ability to clot.

Although these drugs reduce the risk of dangerous blood clot formation within blood vessels (thrombosis), they also affect normal wound healing, leaving patients at risk of lethal bleeding if they injure themselves in any way.

Now, a team of scientists from the UK, Sweden, Germany, Holland and the USA...

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