Thrombosis

Virgin Galactic is already offering $200,000 tickets to intrepid tourists who want to take a suborbital flight on a craft called SpaceShipTwo. Start-up Golden Spike announced earlier this month that it would offer round trips to the moon for two...

According to a recent report, Northern Michigan Regional Hospital, now McLaren Northern Michigan, has some of the lowest complication rates for patient outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures. The hospital was one of more than 300...

Lewis Black goes from zero to peripatetic faster than almost anybody you've met, or seen. The comedian's ire is our expectation and our treat, and in an audience before him, we relish the F-oaths delivered to Facebook, to politicians, even to us. We root...

Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on menopausal hormones. * Put simply, bioidentical is a marketing term, first introduced into contemporary parlance by celebrities endorsing products. The medical community has embraced this...

In my last column, I described peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which is a condition affecting the arteries, especially of the legs. Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, is a condition affecting the veins. While PAD takes years to develop, DVT can develop...

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As you pack your bags, remove your shoes at security and kill time at the gate, your health is likely the last thing on your mind. But the fact is that traveling, whether for work or play, can take its toll on your physical condition. Here are five...

A team from the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center left for Kenya in an effort to save lives Thursday. The group of medical professionals will bring boxes of supplies and equipment to Eldoret.   While there, they'll provide testing and care to...

"Flying Fear Free: 7 Steps to Relieving Air Travel Anxiety" New Horizon Press, $14.95 Call it the equal-opportunity fear. Fear of flying is the second most common phobia in the United States, according to author Sandra M. Pollino, with public speaking...

A South Side woman with multiple health issues has died after a traffic crash in the Chatham neighborhood last November, authorities said today. Kim Ware, 41, of the 5700 block of South Indiana Avenue, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday at the...

The Los Angeles coroner's department has ruled that the cause of death of Hip Hop legend Heavy D was a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that traveled from his leg to his lung. On Nov. 8, the Jamaican-born American entertainer collapsed outside his home...