Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Blood clots kill more than 100,000 people every year and in many cases can be silent and sudden. It's enough of a concern that state legislators and physicians in our area ...

For more than a century, heparin has been the go-to anticoagulant to prevent harmful blood clots in blood vessels or the heart from forming or getting larger. However, a major side effect is an ...

People stuck sitting in tight airplane seats for an entire long-haul flight are at risk of dangerous blood clots. But somehow immobile, hibernating bears are not. Now scientists know why. Bears ...

Q: I have heard that when my baby is born, she should get a vitamin K shot. Why? A: There’s a lot going on when your baby is born. They’re weighed and measured. Their noses are suctioned out and their ...

Every year, millions of people develop dangerous blood clots in their legs without realizing the life-threatening risk growing within their bodies. These formations, medically known as deep vein ...

Asking your health care provider a simple question — “What is my blood clot prevention plan?” — could save your life. It might have saved my daughter’s life. Last October our daughter Emily Adkins (an ...

Using e-cigarettes containing nicotine causes an immediate increase in the formation of blood clots and a deterioration in the ability of small blood vessels to expand and dilate, as well as raised ...

On April 13, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a joint statement recommending a brief pause in administering the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen ...