Plus, what to do if you experience them.

Senior guard Myles Stute has been diagnosed with a left lower leg deep vein thrombosis (blood clot) and will be out indefinitely, the South Carolina men’s basketball team announced Tuesday night. Deep ...

When most of us think of a serious medical emergency, we usually think of sudden events such as heart attacks, strokes or serious injuries from a car crash. But some threats develop quietly, with ...

A prospective validation study found that age-adjusted D-dimer thresholds can safely rule out lower extremity DVT for more people with low to intermediate suspicion in the first place. The ...

When the wall of a blood vessel breaks, a blood clot forms to "plug" the wound site and prevent bleeding. Once the injured blood vessel heals, the body dissolves the clot naturally. Sometimes, due to ...