One of the key lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been America’s troubling dependence on imports. In particular, Americans witnessed shortages of lifesaving medicines and personal protective ...

CHANGZHOU, China — On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to ...

As worries over the heparin blood thinner critical to hospitals and dialysis centers spread to Europe, Chicago-area makers of the product said Friday that they are ratcheting up scrutiny of their own ...

Scientists have learned to customize a key human enzyme responsible for producing heparin, opening the door to a more effective synthetic anticoagulant as well as treatments for other conditions.

On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to 62 deaths and ...

The FDA examined the wrong factory when assessing the safety of a Chinese-made ingredient used to make Baxter International’s blood thinner Heparin. The drug has been recently linked to four deaths ...

WASHINGTON — Dialysis patients in Germany have gotten sick using a different brand of the blood thinner heparin than was linked to 19 American deaths, U.S. officials announced Thursday, sparking ...

CHANGZHOU, China (AP) _ On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked ...