Blood Clots News
November 25, 2024
Top Headlines
Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking coating that could make medical devices safer for millions of patients, reducing the risks associated with blood clots and dangerous bleeding. The new material is designed to mimic the natural behavior of ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Doctors and pharmacists treating people with blood thinners can reduce the rate of inappropriate dosing -- as well as blood clots and strokes that can result from it -- using an electronic patient ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk that is the same among diverse human populations that ...
July 31, 2024 — More than two-thirds of people taking blood thinners take direct oral anticoagulants, or DOACs, which are under- or over-prescribed in up to one in eight patients. A new study finds that most prescribing issues for DOACs occur after a provider ...
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Nov. 12, 2024 — A practical calculator predicts the risk of epilepsy after venous stroke. The aim is to improve care for those affected, which are predominantly young ...
May 13, 2024 — Nature gave ticks, mosquitoes and leaches a quick-acting way to keep blood from clotting while they extract their meal from a host. Now the key to that method has been harnessed by a team of ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A completely novel way to develop 'surpamolecules' for drug discovery could have application in immunotherapy as well as this breakthrough design for an anticoagulant with on-demand ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Anticoagulant treatments are crucial for managing many conditions, such as heart disease, stroke and venous thrombosis. Current options, however, carry an inherent risk of serious bleeding due to ...
Jan. 22, 2024 — The porous material, derived from shellfish, optimizes absorption while activating a previously overlooked blood-clotting mechanism, stemming ...
Dec. 7, 2023 — Patients who received the anticoagulant drug warfarin after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement had lower incidence of mortality and a ...
Dec. 4, 2023 — A new endovascular catheter, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is paving the way to more effective and safe treatment for acute pulmonary embolism. Already shown to be ...
Nov. 8, 2023 — Using birth control pills and other hormone-based contraceptives is known to elevate the risk of blood clots, but a new study suggests that this risk largely goes away within two to four weeks after ...
Oct. 30, 2023 — A mechanism that led some patients to experience cases of deadly clotting following some types of COVID-19 vaccination has been identified in new ...
Sep. 19, 2023 — New research shows an increased risk of blood clots in women who have any combination of a particular gene mutation, estrogen use, or common medical conditions -- specifically: obesity, high blood ...
Earlier Headlines
Aug. 29, 2023 — Modern blood-thinning drugs (known as NOACs) reduce the risk of serious bleeding by up to 45 percent compared to the traditional drug warfarin in the treatment of blood clots in the legs and lungs, ...
Aug. 21, 2023 — Various medical circumstances, including heart attacks and extreme cases of COVID-19, necessitate the use of anticoagulants, medicines that prevent blood clots. But the most commonly used, heparin, ...
Aug. 10, 2023 — A new observation suggests that a life-threatening blood clotting disorder can be caused by an infection with adenovirus, one of the most common respiratory viruses in pediatric and adult ...
Apr. 13, 2023 — 'Don't poke the bear', they said. But that's exactly what a team of scientists have been doing, to discover the secrets of blood clotting. Hibernating bears, paralysed humans, and ...
Mar. 24, 2023 — The glycoprotein V of the blood platelets is an important switch point for haemostasis and thrombus formation. This new finding could have great clinical ...
Mar. 2, 2023 — Being overweight in childhood and in early adulthood are discrete risk factors for blood clots later in life, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The study is based on the early BMI history of ...
Jan. 23, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new tool and technique that uses 'vortex ultrasound' -- a sort of ultrasonic tornado -- to break down blood clots in the brain. The new approach worked more ...
Jan. 18, 2023 — Patients hospitalized with fractures typically receive an injectable blood thinner, low-molecular-weight heparin, to prevent life-threatening blood clots. A new clinical trial, however, found that ...
Jan. 11, 2023 — Researchers combined heparin with a protein fragment, peptide, to slow down the release of the drug and convey the medication directly to the site of a ...
Dec. 13, 2022 — Researchers who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis) are now turning their attention to ...
Nov. 7, 2022 — A new study could change the treatment course for hundreds of thousands of patients, saving lives and preventing ...
Nov. 3, 2022 — Researchers have discovered a new role for the blood clotting protein, von Willebrand Factor (VWF), that could lead to the development of new treatments for patients with inflammatory and blood ...
Sep. 19, 2022 — When patients who are on a commonly prescribed blood thinner stop taking aspirin, their risk of bleeding complications drops significantly (more than 30%), a new study finds. Researchers say aspirin ...
Sep. 14, 2022 — Obese women who use oral contraceptives containing estrogen and progestin have a 24-fold increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared with non-obese women not using the drugs, according to ...
Aug. 23, 2022 — New research has provided greater insight into the causes of Long COVID syndrome. The findings further investigate the link between Long COVID and blood ...
Aug. 4, 2022 — A study from a COVID-19 cohort reveals an additional link between the immune system and blood clots, which could improve the treatment of critical ...
Aug. 3, 2022 — Researchers report on a novel function of vitamin K, which is generally known for its importance in blood clotting. The researchers discovered that the fully reduced form of vitamin K acts as an ...
June 10, 2022 — Around one in 500 men could be carrying an extra X or Y chromosome -- most of them unaware -- putting them at increased risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis and thrombosis, say ...
May 3, 2022 — This was the first time a blood clot had been found in an astronaut in space, so there was no established method of treatment for DVT in zero ...
Apr. 13, 2022 — A new study suggests that people with cancer and non-O blood types, such as types A, B, and AB, face an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clots in the veins, three ...