Sunday Times On Strokes
They have a series of articles on strokes today. One in particular talks about the new drugs to replace Warfarin. Information for the article was provided by Boehringer Ingelheim.
So who makes one of the new drugs?
You got it in one!
Am I changing?
No! All the doctors I’ve seen from the stars that appear on TV, to the newly qualified have advised me against them.
The reason is that it took us many years to know all the Warfarin problems. The biggest is actually people getting rather mixed up, as to what is the dose.
Solving that is a managememt problem and doesn’t require a new drug with unknown side-effects.
In the article, it says that with the new drugs, the great advantage is that you take one a day. I have taken the same dose of Warfarin for over a year now and the dose is 5 mg (pink) most days and 4 mg (1 blue and 1 brown) on Saturday and Monday.
What could be simpler?
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