A major goal for postsecondary teachers with a doctoral degree is attaining a tenureâa guarantee that a professor cannot be fired without just cause. It can take up to 7 years of moving up the ranks in tenure-track positions. The ranks are assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.
Zontivity, known generically as vorapaxar, is the first of a new class of drugs called protease-activated receptor-1 antagonists. The drugs work by preventing blood platelets from clumping together to form a blood clot. Internal bleeding is a common side effect of blood thinning drugs, and Zontivity will carry a boxed warning that it can cause potentially deadly bleeding side effects.
People take blood thinners to increase the amount of time it takes blood to form a clot. They don't actually thin the blood. Thick blood would be blood that clots too fast. Oftentimes heart patients have to take blood thinners (anticoagulants such as coumarin) because they already have a tendancy to clot too quickly.