Patients taking the oral anticoagulant drug warfarin (Coumadin) or being given heparin injections and their in-office and home healthcare teams should check the brand of their PT/INR test strips and ...

Alere announced a voluntary Class 1 recall of the Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips due to significantly different test results between the Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips ...

Concerned over nine serious adverse events, three of which described bleeding associated with patient deaths, Alere Inc. of Waltham, MA issued a voluntary urgent recall of its PN 99008G2 INRatio2 ...

Alere has issued a voluntary correction to users of the Alere INRatio and INRatio 2 PT/INR Monitor system of certain medical conditions that should not be tested with the system (INRatio Monitor ...

A new recall has been issued CoaguChek XS PT test strips, used to monitor international normalized ratio (INR) in patients taking warfarin, due to inaccurately high readings. Roche Diagnostics ...

A concerned daughter brings her father to a hospital as her father noticed blood in his stools. He also had large bleeding patches on the back of the chest and thighs. She recalls that her father is ...