Using genetic testing to help personalize doses of warfarin therapy given to patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery appears to lower the risk of combined adverse events compared with ...

Seattle, WA - Researchers in Seattle say they have uncovered specific genetic variations that influence how people respond to warfarin dose. Their study suggests that haplotypes of the VKORC1 gene can ...

Daily warfarin dosing requirements clearly decrease with advancing age. To examine the relation between age and warfarin dosing, researchers analyzed data from 101 U.S. sites that were participating ...

In a large-scale study and an upcoming clinical trial, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health address one of the trickiest issues in prescribing medicine—how to quickly optimize ...