New sublingual delivery system designed to enhance bioavailability and avoid gastric side effects many patients experience with clopidogrel.

Clopidogrel is prescribed to help prevent heart attack or stroke. It's a generic medication and is available as the brand-name drug Plavix. It comes as an oral tablet. The cost of clopidogrel can vary ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's new pill Brilinta for preventing heart attacks works better than Plavix, the world's second biggest selling drug, without increasing the amount of life-threatening ...

NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A small study presented on Monday suggests Eli Lilly and Co.'s experimental blood clot preventer, prasugrel, works faster and could be more effective than the commonly ...

Hawaii will receive $700 million from pharmaceutical giants Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi in a landmark settlement over the blood thinner Plavix, Gov. Josh Green announced today—one of the largest ...

HONOLULU — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle its lawsuit over the efficacy and safety of the blood thinner Plavix, the state attorney general's office announced ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

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