News tagged with hemostasis


Researchers solve 'bloodcurdling' mystery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

By applying cutting-edge techniques in single-molecule manipulation, researchers at Harvard University have uncovered a fundamental feedback mechanism that the body uses to regulate the clotting of blood. The finding, which ...


Importance of preventing congestion in heart failure

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Preventing vascular congestion is an important mediator in heart failure, reports a study in the June issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.





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Women with high blood pressure during pregnancy face future of complications

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chronic hypertension, diabetes and blood clots are more likely in otherwise healthy women who experienced complications due to hypertension such as preeclampsia in their first pregnancies, according to Yale School of Medicine ...


ASGE issues guidelines on management of antithrombotic agents for endoscopic procedures

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to a new guideline from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) regarding the management of antithrombotic agents for endoscopy, aspirin and/or NSAIDs may be continued for all elective endoscopic ...


Study shows pine bark reduces jetlag

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3

A new study published in the journal of Minerva Cardioangiologica reveals Pycnogenol, pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces jetlag in passengers by nearly 50 percent. The two-part study, consisting ...


New material stops bleeding in seconds

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 10, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (57) | comments 0

MIT and Hong Kong University researchers have shown that some simple biodegradable liquids can stop bleeding in wounded rodents within seconds, a development that could significantly impact medicine.


Transfusions increase clot risk in hospitalized cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Blood transfusions used to treat anemia in patients with cancer are associated with an increased risk of life-threatening blood clots, at a similar rate as other treatments for cancer-induced anemia, according to scientists ...


Alternatively spliced tissue factor identified as promising new biomarker for aggressive cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recently discovered form of the protein that triggers blood clotting may play a key role in the molecular mechanisms leading to the growth of certain metastatic cancers, according to new research reported by an international ...


Exercise may play role in reducing inflammation in damaged skin tissue

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In recent years, researchers at the University of Illinois have uncovered a host of reasons for people to remain physically active as they age, ranging from better brain function to improved immune responses.



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