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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A 15-year Danish historical cohort study was done to see how hormonal contraception can cause thrombotic stroke (blood clotting inside a brain artery) and myocardial infarction (heart attack). In this study, 1,626,158 non-pregnant women from the ages of 15 to 49 years old were observed. During the study 3,311 thrombotic strokes and 1,725 myocardial infarctions occurred. The current use of oral contraceptive that included ethinyl estradiol (bio-active estrogen) at a...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVascular, Inc., a company focused on developing therapies targeting platelet-mediated diseases, today announced that it has merged with Revitus, a privately-held company developing a first-in-class platelet count reducer, BVI-007. The announcement came as the first subject was dosed in a Phase Ia clinical trial of BVI-007, a thrombopoeitin antagonist that reduces platelet production without impacting platelet function. BVI-007 is being developed for...