Dr. Charles “Chuck” Fisher Jr. has so many terrific insights. You will be riveted as he discusses his time as a special operations leader in Iraq where he had two direct hits to the chest by high caliber bullets. Then how he later met the man who developed the very body armor that saved his […]

FDA is walking back the contraindication against statins for pregnant patients, but the agency maintains that most pregnant people should stop statin therapy. Rates of venous thromboembolism after elective total knee arthroplasty favored the novel factor XI inhibitor abelacimab over standard anticoagulant enoxaparin (Lovenox) in a phase II trial. (New England Journal of Medicine)

TUESDAY, July 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Anyone who’s ever undergone knee replacement understands the real and troubling risk of post-op blood clots. Many patients are told take a daily blood thinner pill long after their procedure. But a new study finds that a one-time injection of an experimental blood thinner called abelacimab may greatly […]