Medical experts warn that "ghost symptoms" like back pain or mild cramping could be the only warning signs of a ...

Blood loss from traumatic injuries is a major killer, but it’s relatively easy to treat in a hospital environment. The problem is that it can occur suddenly, and first responders don’t have the same ...

Few bodily functions are as misunderstood as blood clots. While most people have heard about blood clots in the heart or brain causing serious issues or even death, fewer realize that blood clotting ...

A "genetic thrombophilia," or an inherited predisposition to develop blood clots, affects both you and your family. Genetic changes (also called mutations) in clotting factors, like factor V and ...

The treatment for acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare blood disorder that causes blood clots in the small ...

Scientists have offered a new explanation for why COVID-19 vaccines that contained adenoviruses carried a rare-but-serious risk of blood clotting. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

“We’ve discovered a completely new blood-clotting mechanism that has nothing to do with the traditional clotting system involving platelets or fibrin,” said corresponding author Professor Shaun ...

When you get a cut, your body jumps into action to keep things from getting out of hand. Cells called platelets get there first to slow the bleeding. Then, a bunch of proteins, called clotting factors ...

Clotting disorders can be treated by infusing patients with clotting proteins they lack, or with drugs that replace the function of these proteins. Gene therapies may soon become another option.

Since September 2021, Deion Sanders has suffered so much trouble in his left leg that he’s undergone 10 surgeries on it, with more procedures apparently coming later. Doctors already had cut out both ...

What are the causes of excessive blood clotting disorder? Common causes of blood clot can be either hereditary or acquired, such as prolonged sitting or bed rest or long air travel; medications, such ...