FDA: Boxed Warning on Plavix

• Date: March 14, 2010
• Source: admin

FDA has announced new boxed warning on Plavix. Plavix, which is an anti-blood clotting drug, can prove to be less effective in people who cannot digest the drug to convert it to its active form.

Plavix is one of the most effective medicines in terms of alleviating the risk of heart attack, unstable angina, cardiovascular death, and stroke in patients by making platelets less likely to form blood clots. Nevertheless, for its proper functioning, Plavix needs to be metabolized into its active form by the liver enzyme, CYP2C19.