Inflammation, Diet, Health, and Clots: What You Need to Know
Updated November 2020 Inflammation is a hot topic in the medical community and has been shown to increase the risk of thrombosis and…
November 23, 2020
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October 15, 2020
Clinical Trials 101: Your Guide to the Gold Standard of Research
The race is on to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, and several trials are underway to ensure that the vaccine is…
October 15, 2020
Get to Know Our COVID-19 and Thrombosis Grant Recipients!
We now know that some patients who get COVID-19 can develop serious blood clots. To address the need for more…
October 15, 2020
Clot Chronicles: Catheter-Directed Therapy in Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
My name is Suresh Vedantham and I am an interventional radiologist and thrombosis researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.…
August 5, 2017
Research Report: One Brave Idea
Updated January 2020 Heart disease kills over 600,000 people in the United States every year, accounting for 1 in every…
August 3, 2017
EINSTEIN CHOICE Trial
Updated January 2020 Results from the EINSTEIN CHOICE study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2017, revealed…
August 1, 2017
RE-CIRCUIT Trial Results Compare Dabigatran And Warfarin
New data suggests that uninterrupted dabigatran may be safer than uninterrupted warfarin when treating atrial fibrillation patients undergoing catheter ablation.…
August 1, 2017
New Research Explores Gender and Thrombosis
New research, led by Dr. Tzoran from the Department of Internal Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, is…
August 1, 2017
The Power of Statins
Statins are a class of drug that is traditionally used to treat high cholesterol. They work by blocking an enzyme…
August 1, 2017
New Research Suggests Chemotherapy Related to Thrombosis in Cancer Patients
New research out of the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that chemotherapy could be the cause of increased…
August 1, 2017
Thrombosis in Psoriasis Patients: The Connection to IL-6
Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that causes skin cells to over produce, creating thick patches of scaly skin.…
August 1, 2017
Could Venous Thromboembolism Be Chronic?
Recent trial results are changing how doctors think about venous thromboembolism (VTE) and how it should be treated. “Until recently,…