We have fractionated crude porcine heparin to obtain highly active as well as relatively inactive species of molecular weight ≈ 7000 with specific anticoagulant activities of 360 and 12 units/mg, ...

WASHINGTON — A contaminated blood thinner from China suspected in dozens of U.S. deaths has become a worldwide public health problem, with 10 other countries detecting the often-toxic ingredient, ...

BALTIMORE — Thousands of miles from a manufacturing plant in China, where the key active ingredient in heparin is sourced, Wanda Crowell receives a daily infusion of the drug in her bed at Johns ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said more than 100 patients have died while taking the blood thinner heparin since early 2007. The agency found that 62 deaths are associated with ...