Clopidogrel is a generic oral tablet that’s prescribed to help prevent stroke and heart attack in certain adults. It’s available as the brand-name drug Plavix. The cost of clopidogrel, with and ...

Commonly prescribed treatment options to prevent recurrent stroke include aspirin, clopidogrel, and an aspirin/dipyridamole combination. In the double-blind randomized PRoFESS trial, 20,332 clinically ...

A research team has demonstrated that clopidogrel is more effective than aspirin as a long-term antiplatelet therapy in patients at high risk of recurrent cardiovascular events after coronary stent ...

Despite current treatments, patients who have acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation have high rates of major vascular events. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of the antiplatelet ...

The antiplatelet drug clopidogrel helps prevent stent-associated thrombosis, but the antiplatelet effects are quite variable and the clinical consequences can be serious. New findings show that the ...

The INSPIRES, a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, involved patients with mild ischemic stroke or high-risk TIA of presumed atherosclerotic cause who had not undergone thrombolysis or ...

Clopidogrel is prescribed to help prevent cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke in certain adults. It’s a generic medication that's available as the brand-name drug Plavix. The drug ...

Both aspirin and clopidogrel reduce the rate of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease. We estimated the cost effectiveness of the increased use of aspirin, clopidogrel, or both ...

Researchers at 37 sites in South Korea have found patients taking clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) experienced lower rates of both thrombotic and bleeding events than those ...

The ongoing registrational trial will assess the efficacy and safety of Evategrel in both injection and oral capsule forms.