Was Your Heart Pill Approved on Fake Medical ‘Research’?

A blood thinner used by millions of people was praised for healing the heart. Now, that study has been retracted and investigations into potentially fraudulent research are expanding.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Xarelto (rivaroxaban) is a blockbuster blood thinning medication that’s been prescribed more than 80 million times in the U.S. alone

• The drug may have been approved based on manipulated data, including a now-retracted paper by Temple University researchers that concluded Xarelto “could have a healing effect on hearts”

• The Journal of Molec…