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Tag: home monitor

  • Warfarin therapy made easier

    Background and Summary Patients on warfarin can test their own INR (International Normalized Ratio) at home with small, handheld INR monitors, similar to diabetics checking their own blood sugar. A very large, well conducted study published on Oct 21, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine (ref 1) shows that patients can safely and…