What is a blood clot? Blood clots normally form after an injury to protect your body from losing too much blood, but they can ...

Patients who undergo general anesthesia while receiving a specialized surgery to treat strokes have better outcomes than ...

A new trial suggests the optimal approach for basilar artery occlusion stroke may vary depending on whether the blockage ...

When Joseph Broderick was a college sophomore in 1975, stroke treatment was a waiting game. Doctors could diagnose a stroke but couldn’t stop it. There were no scientifically proven therapies, no ...

JIPMER Puducherry has successfully completed clinical trials for the Supernova, a locally developed stent retriever designed ...

Penumbra reported positive data for a trial of its treatment for pulmonary embolism. The use of computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy resulted in improvements in thrombus burden reduction, heart rate, ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE), a type of blood clot in the lungs, sends more than half a million people to U.S. hospitals each year—and kills about one in five high-risk patients, according to the American ...

Heart disease and stroke dominate India's health statistics - but this hidden culprit links many of these deaths.

Even better, it does this without raising the risk of dangerous bleeding—a common side effect of many current blood-thinning ...

Leslie Stoll was an active athlete who had never smoked. She was shocked when a chance scan spotted something unusual.

FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A new review of Medicare data shows a marked increase for both arterial and venous thrombectomy claims for venous thromboembolic disease filed between ...