Byline: Associated Press
BOSTON -- Newly available blood-thinning medicines should allow many of the 400,000 Americans who suffer dangerous clots each year to be treated at home, researchers say.
Two studies from Canada and the Netherlands show these drugs can be injected safely and effectively for treatment of a common condition called deep-vein thrombosis. The new class of drugs consists of improved versions of heparin, which has been the mainstay of clot treatment since the 1940s.
``This has the potential to markedly change the way we practice and do so in a setting where patient convenience is increased and costs are …
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