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Researchers from Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK have found a solution to the deadly venom of cobra that claims the lives of 1.38 lakh people annually every year. This would also help ...
The team discovered the commonly used blood thinner heparin was not only effective at slowing the snake venom ... safe and effective drug for treating cobra bites,” once human trials are ...
(CNN)-- U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have found a contaminant in a blood-thinning drug produced by Baxter Healthcare Corp. that has been linked to more than a dozen deaths in the ...
In a study led by researchers at Centivax and Columbia University, antibodies from Friede’s blood were ... in mice against venom from six elapid species, including black mamba, king cobra and four ...
The antivenom combines the existing drug varespladib with antibodies that are copies of those in the blood of Tim Friede, a US snake collector who has given himself more than 600 doses of venom to ...