More Blood Clot News

• Blood Thinner Linked to Increased Brain Bleeding

  September 29 (HealthDay News) -- The amount of bleeding in the brain that occurs when ...

• Alert Issued on Use of Blood Thinners

  September 24 (HealthDay News) -- In the wake of several high-profile medication errors, some of ...

• Migraine Sufferers Face Greater Blood Clot Risk

  September 15 (HealthDay News) -- Migraine patients face a higher risk for developing a blood ...

• Later Use of Clot-Buster After Stroke Possible: Study

  September 14 (HealthDay News) -- European researchers who showed that the clot-dissolving drug tPA could ...

• Broad Screening of Blood Clots May Find Cancers Earlier

  September 12 (HealthDay News) -- Doing more thorough screening of people with unexplained blood clots ...

• Finding May Allow Some Women to Stop Blood Thinners

  August 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new study identifies some women -- but not men ...

• Compression Stockings Often Incorrectly Used

  August 20 (HealthDay News) -- Compression stockings are used incorrectly in 29 percent of patients ...

• Heart Drug Used in Ambulance Boosts Survival

  August 14 (HealthDay News) -- Giving a high dose of the anti-clotting drug tirofiban to ...

• Blood-Thinner Plavix Works Harder in Smokers

  August 4 (HealthDay News) -- The widely used anti-clotting drug Plavix appears to have a ...

• Researchers Test New Source for Blood Platelets

  July 31 (HealthDay News) -- A new and potentially better source of platelets (clot-forming blood ...

• New Anti-Clotting Pill Works Well in Trials

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug that could be one of the ...

• Oral Drug Helps Prevent Clotting After Hip Replacement

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Extended use of the oral drug rivaroxaban helps prevent potentially ...

• Sucking Out Clot Debris Helps Heart Attack Patients

  June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Vacuuming out loose pieces of clots before artery-opening treatment of ...

• Mixed Results for Anti-Clotting Drugs in Heart Attacks

  May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency treatment with two different anti-clotting drugs doesn't help much ...

• Clot-Busting Treatment Improves Bleeding Stroke Outcomes

  May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they have dramatically increased the survival rate for ...

• Blood-Thinner No Help for Dialysis Treatment

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- A major trial has dashed the hope that the clot-preventing ...

• Anti-Clotting Drug as Good as Aspirin at Stopping Second Stroke

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-clotting drug cilostazol is as good as aspirin at ...

• Device Approved to Assess Arterial Plaque

  April 29 (HealthDay News) -- The InfraReDx LipiScan NIR Catheter Imaging System, a device that ...

• FDA: Contaminated Heparin Found in 10 Countries

  April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Contaminated heparin products have now been found in at least ...