A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered. Snakebites ...

Researchers have discovered that Heparin, a common blood thinner, might be an affordable cure for deadly cobra venom.

This new discovery could lead to an affordable way to treat and cure cobra venom exposure. Heparin is widely available and inexpensive compared to standard anti-venom drugs that have limited use.

Researchers said that blood thinning medicine Heparin can be repurposed as cobra venom antidote. The team from the University of Sydney and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine claimed they have ...

On average, snakes bite 1.8 million people worldwide each year, and 138,000 of those are fatal. Researchers have now found a new treatment for at least cobra bites — a common blood thinner ...

A breakthrough from an international research team has produced a cheap new antidote to deadly cobra venom using a surprising source—a commonplace blood thinner. Cobras aren’t technically the ...

A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, researchers have found. A team of scientists based in Liverpool, Australia, Canada and Costa Rica ...

Giving mice the blood-thinning drug heparin after they were injected with venom from two cobra species reduced their risk of tissue death, which can lead to amputations ...

A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered. Snakebites ...

A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered.