Blood clots in the lungs, also known as pulmonary embolisms, can be a serious medical condition that affects your overall health. A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot, typically originating ...

Fatal blood clots can arise in people who have cancer. The discovery of a cue that underlies these clots offers a therapeutic target and a way to assess clot risk. Read the paper: Extracellular ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It was just weeks until her son’s high school graduation; Melanie Bolkema couldn’t wait to see her son walk across the stage. “I had to jump into mom mode,” Bolkema said.

“Today Show” weatherman and host Al Roker revealed to fans that he was hospitalized with blood clots in his lungs and leg last week, which is why he missed the past few days of “Today” broadcasts. The ...

Medications for pulmonary embolism may decrease the size of blood clots, help dissolve them, or reduce the risk of recurrence. All of these medications carry the risk of bleeding. A pulmonary embolism ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients -- not from other organ sites, as previously thought -- according to a preclinical study. Clots are the second-leading cause ...

Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in your lungs. Its purpose is to find problems such as pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in your lungs), stenosis (narrowed blood vessels), or ...

Dontay Corleone, star defensive tackle and preseason All-American for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, is being treated for blood clots in his lungs after reporting shortness of breath and chest ...

Veteran actor Saira Banu was diagnosed with pneumonia lately and has been having blood clots in her calves. Recently, she has ...

A pulmonary embolism is not necessarily a common condition during pregnancy, but pregnant people are 10 times more likely to develop it than the larger population. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a ...

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 ...