In an accompanying editorial, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine welcome today's study, but say it would be «premature to recommend the routine use of tranexamic acid in general and orthopaedic surgery.» (sciencedaily.com)
So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery. (sciencedaily.com)
An international team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently tested an inexpensive drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) in a trial involving more than 20,000 trauma cases in 40 countries. (discovermagazine.com)