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The FDA approved Xarelto – generic name rivaroxaban – for use as a blood thinner in 2012. This was big news, as it was the first oral anti-clotting drug to gain approval in nearly 60 years. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Pharmacetucials, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, jointly market Xarelto. While Xarelto has helped…

Cook manufactures two types of retrievable IVC filters that have come under lots of scrutiny: the Gunther Tulip and the Cook Celect. Part of the problem is that while these filters are, in theory, retrievable, it’s not that easy in practice. Also, the longer the filter remains in place, the harder it is to remove….