Blood Disorders: Medications

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  • Safety Tips When Taking Anticoagulants

    01/08/09, Healthwise

    Anticoagulants, often called blood thinners, are medicines that slow the clotting of blood. They do not actually thin the blood but increase the time it takes a blood clot to form. Anticoagulants help prevent existing blood clots from bec

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  • Primaquine for malaria

    05/16/07, Healthwise

    Primaquine phosphate kills parasites in the blood that cause malaria.

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  • Polyenes for treating thrush

    03/10/08, Healthwise

    Polyenes stop the growth of the yeast that causes thrush. This gives the body's immune system a better chance to destroy the yeast.

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  • Azoles for treating thrush

    03/10/08, Healthwise

    Azoles stop the growth of the yeast that causes thrush. This gives the body's immune system a better chance to destroy the yeast.

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  • Unfractionated heparin for deep vein thrombosis

    01/15/08, Healthwise

    Normally, when an injury that causes bleeding occurs, the body sends out signals that cause blood to clot at the wound, and the clot naturally breaks down as the wound heals. A person prone to abnormal clotting has an imbalance between cl

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  • Deep Vein Thrombosis - Medications

    01/15/08, Healthwise

    Anticoagulant medicines are the main form of treatment for deep vein thrombosis. Anticoagulants affect the way blood clots in the body.

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  • Oral anticoagulants for deep vein thrombosis

    01/15/08, Healthwise

    Normally, when an injury that causes bleeding occurs, the body sends out signals that cause blood to clot at the wound, and the clot naturally breaks down as the wound heals. A person prone to abnormal clotting has an imbalance between cl

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  • Low-molecular-weight heparins for deep vein thrombosis

    01/15/08, Healthwise

    Normally, when an injury that causes bleeding occurs, the body sends out signals that cause blood to clot at the wound, and the clot naturally breaks down as the wound heals. A person prone to abnormal clotting has an imbalance between cl

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  • Cyclophosphamide

    08/31/07, Healthwise

    Cyclophosphamide is an alkylating agent and is related to mustard gas. It causes cell death by interfering with the way genetic material (DNA) in the cell multiplies.

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  • Erythropoietin stimulators

    11/13/07, Healthwise

    Erythropoietin stimulators cause the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, and they decrease your need for blood transfusions. Anemia often occurs because of a decrease in erythropoietin, a protein produced by the kidneys. Inje

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