This post duplicates a 2009 FF post. My colleague and friend Dan Southern, Professor Emeritus, Western Carolina University, alerted me to a Wall Street Journal article describing how protein pump inhibitors such as Nexium, taken for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), inhibit the absorption of clopidogrel (Plavix). Many cardiologists prescribe Nexium to control the heartburn some […]

This is a prior-year post that has resurfaced as we have switched over to our new provider and format.

At the 2022 Northeast Laboratory Conference, October 18 and 19, I [Geo] presented "Antithrombotic Therapy, Whatever Happened to Warfarin?"

Venous thromboembolism is a condition in which a clot forms in the deep veins of the leg, groin, or arm [deep vein thrombosis, DVT ].