If patients who are taking the anticoagulant generic warfarin suddenly have a lower International Normalized Ratio (INR), health care providers are advised to determine whether they are also consuming soy protein. A pharmacist at Fallon Clinic, in Webster, Massachusetts, described a patient who was stable with warfarin therapy until he started drinking soy milk daily [...]
Physicians should be cautious when prescribing topical miconazole for patients taking warfarin, advise clinicians from Eastbourne District Hospital in England. They report on a case of an 80-year-old man who had been applying the broad-spectrum antifungal to the right groin area for two weeks. Although he had been taking warfarin for a long time for [...]
It’s not uncommon for patients who take warfarin generic to be taking other drugs— or for those drugs to have a significant potential for interaction. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente and Northwest Permanente in Portland, Oregon, and from Harvard University in Boston evaluated the effectiveness of electronic medical record alerts. In one retrospective review, they found [...]
