2,000 patients suing Boehringer over Pradaxa

More than 2,000 patients in the U.S. have filed suits against Boehringer Ingelheim over its oral anticoagulant dabigatran (Pradaxa). The company confirmed the number to Reuters after a German newspaper initially reported the total.

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