Concerned over nine serious adverse events, three of which described bleeding associated with patient deaths, Alere Inc. of Waltham, MA issued a voluntary urgent recall of its PN 99008G2 INRatio2 ...

Terrific Care/Medex Supply had purchased these test strips (which were distributed by Roche Diagnostics outside the country) from an unknown source, imported and sold them in the US. The Food and Drug ...

A concerned daughter brings her father to a hospital as her father noticed blood in his stools. He also had large bleeding patches on the back of the chest and thighs. She recalls that her father is ...

Patients taking the oral anticoagulant drug warfarin (Coumadin) or being given heparin injections and their in-office and home healthcare teams should check the brand of their PT/INR test strips and ...

Alere has issued a voluntary correction to users of the Alere INRatio and INRatio 2 PT/INR Monitor system of certain medical conditions that should not be tested with the system (INRatio Monitor ...

Evidence that Theranos may have returned potentially faulty results to patients have been documented in a government investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citing people familiar with the ...

Globally, how many patients are estimated to be taking Warfarin and what are the main reasons the drug is prescribed? There are roughly 10 million people worldwide taking Warfarin, accounting for more ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is warning patients and doctors, who use at-home or in-the-office medical devices to monitor levels of the blood thinner warfarin, that certain test strips ...