Popular blood thinner associated with higher risk of bleeding complications
When diagnosed with a blood clot or atrial fibrillation, patients are often prescribed anticoagulants, or blood thinners, to prevent a future clot.
Dec 14, 2023
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When diagnosed with a blood clot or atrial fibrillation, patients are often prescribed anticoagulants, or blood thinners, to prevent a future clot.
Dec 14, 2023
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Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S., and one of the two drugs used—mifepristone—will now go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court next year.
Dec 13, 2023
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For the first time ever, wireless millirobots navigated a narrow blood vessel both along and against arterial flow. Researchers from the University of Twente and Radboudumc inserted the screw-shaped robots in a detached aorta ...
Dec 12, 2023
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Aspirin is an inexpensive and readily available medication that could benefit cancer treatments, preventing metastatic cancer spread and reducing vascular complications, finds a new meta-analysis study.
Dec 4, 2023
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Cambridge scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak, leading to conditions such as vascular dementia ...
Nov 16, 2023
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An experimental anti-clotting medication, abelacimab, significantly reduced bleeding among people with atrial fibrillation (or AFib) who were at risk of stroke, according to results of the AZALEA-TIMI 71 trial, presented ...
Nov 13, 2023
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Using birth control pills and other hormone-based contraceptives is known to elevate the risk of blood clots about three-fold, but a new study suggests that this risk largely goes away within two to four weeks after one stops ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Body mass index, or BMI, is a person's mass (weight) in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. Since it was first developed in the 1970s, BMI has been used to broadly categorize people as underweight, ...
Nov 7, 2023
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We all know that a lousy night's sleep can leave us feeling drained the next day. Now a study by UC San Francisco has found another reason to catch more Z's: poor sleep is tied to significantly higher odds of experiencing ...
Nov 6, 2023
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People who live in neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status are less likely to receive clot-busting medications or undergo clot-removing procedures after they have a stroke than people who live in neighborhoods with ...
Nov 1, 2023
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