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  2. Medication discontinuation - Wikipedia

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    Medication discontinuation is the ceasing of a medication treatment for a patient by either the clinician or the patient themself. [1] [2] When initiated by the clinician, it is known as deprescribing. [3] Medication discontinuation is an important medical practice that may be motivated by a number of reasons: [4] [3] Reducing polypharmacy

  3. Clopidogrel - Wikipedia

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    Clopidogrel, sold under the brand name Plavix among others, is an antiplatelet medication used to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke in those at high risk. [10] It is also used together with aspirin in heart attacks and following the placement of a coronary artery stent (dual antiplatelet therapy). [10] It is taken by mouth. [10]

  4. List of withdrawn drugs - Wikipedia

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    This list is not limited to drugs that were ever approved by the FDA. Some of them (lumiracoxib, rimonabant, tolrestat, ximelagatran and ximelidine, for example) were approved to be marketed in Europe but had not yet been approved for marketing in the US, when side effects became clear and their developers pulled them from the market.

  5. Is Bristol a Buy Post-Plavix

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    The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which health-care editor/analyst David Williamson discusses topics across the investing world.Is Bristol-Myers Squibb a ...

  6. FDA Issues Urgent Warning on Dangers of Common Dog Medication

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    The United States Food and Drugs Administration is warning pet owners about a common medication given to pets to treat arthritis. The F.D.A. now says that the drug Librela may be associated with ...

  7. Pfizer's twice-daily weight-loss pill discontinued due to ...

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    Pfizer announced on Dec. 1 that it was discontinuing phase 3 clinical trials of the twice-daily version due to high rates of adverse side effects. While these were mostly mild, a large percentage ...

  8. Adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitor - Wikipedia

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    Metabolism of ticlopidine, clopidogrel and prasugrel to an active metabolite. Clopidogrel is a prodrug that is metabolized by two pathways. In one of the pathway most of the dose of clopidogrel (85%) is hydrolyzed by esterases to an inactive carboxylic acid derivate and rapidly cleared via glucoridination followed by renal excretion.

  9. Prasugrel - Wikipedia

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    Prasugrel is a member of the thienopyridine class of ADP receptor inhibitors, like ticlopidine (trade name Ticlid) and clopidogrel (trade name Plavix). These agents reduce the aggregation ("clumping") of platelets by irreversibly binding to P2Y 12 receptors. Prasugrel inhibits platelet aggregation more rapidly, more consistently, and to a ...