Sharon underwent 13 hours of surgery to reduce the bleeding in his brain, and doctors earlier this week slowly lowered his dosage of anesthesia to draw him out of a medically induced coma.

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Official conversations about medication in racing are a fairly common occurrence these days, many of them centering on the raceday use of furosemide, also known as Lasix or Salix, a diuretic that has been proven to reduce pulmonary bleeding in racehorses, bleeding that is often the result of strenuous exercise.

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Eliquis now has the unique distinction of being the only new anticoagulant to reduce stroke, major bleeding, and death versus the gold standard warfarin in atrial fibrillation patients (the largest commercial opportunity, in our view).

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Yudhoyono convincingly did slash fuel subsidies in October, boosting street prices 125% in a much-anticipated step to stanch fiscal bleeding and to reduce demand for and smuggling of mispriced oil.

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In addition, patients receiving the femoral approach must lie down for several hours after PCI to reduce the risk of severe bleeding while radial access allows patients to stand up in one hour.

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We worked to control patients' bleeding, to "reduce, " or set, their badly broken bones in an effort to save their limbs, and to administer medication to help their pain and prevent infection.

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It did seem to reduce the risk of major heart attacks, but at the expense of major bleeding problems.

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The only way to reduce this risk is with warfarin, a cheap generic that is difficult to given and can cause too much bleeding.

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