Chris came to the emergency department with complaints of cough and shortness of breath. She initially became ill after returning from a trip to Hawaii with her family and figured she had caught a ...

SPRINGFIELD — Mercy Medical Center is the first hospital in Western Massachusetts to offer a new, non-surgical treatment option for pulmonary embolism patients with the Inari Medical’s FlowTriever ...

In an article published online April 16, 2016 by the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report promising 90-day outcomes for ...

Mervyn Rothstein loves walking through New York City, covering at least three miles each day. In March, he started experiencing shortness of breath during his walks so he reached out to his doctor.

Period blood can be a bit of a chameleon. Depending on the day of your period, it may be bright red, deep red, or even dark brown and may even smell slightly acidic. But period blood also has the ...

Passing blood clots when you're not on your period, or experiencing a sudden gush of blood, isn't always cause for alarm. Heavy bleeding may be the sign of temporary hormonal imbalance or medication ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery resulted in stroke survivors being more likely to have better function 90 days ...

For blood clots that cause heart attack and stroke, immediate treatment through surgical removal or dissolution with blood thinners can be life-saving. But what happens when a blood clot that causes ...

Angioplasty is a treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which is a blood clot that forms in one of the deep veins typically in your legs. DVT can partly or totally block the blood flow back to your ...

If you have deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, it’s key to treat the blood clot in your vein before it breaks loose. Common treatments include blood thinners, internal filters, or “clot busters”-- drugs ...