DEAR DR. GOTT:
You recently discussed warfarin, the brand name of which is Coumadin. It was discovered by serendipity by Dr. Karl Paul Link at the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and developed at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, hence the name.
As a physician, I feel your readers might be interested in the background of the development of how this drug got its name.
DEAR DOCTOR: Coumadin is an anticoagulant often prescribed for patients at risk of heart attack, stroke and some other serious medical conditions. It never occurred to me how the name came to be.
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