Newly Diagnosed with a Blood Clot? What You Need to Know
Anxiety is normal, clots are common and help is available.
Category: Hematology
The Athlete-Blood Clot Connection
Clots commonly happen because of injuries, and the physicality of sports may increase a player’s risk.
High up-front costs could delay access to life-saving blood cancer ...
In the study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, UNC Lineberger researchers report that nearly a third of a group of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, and who have federally-funded Medicare health insurance, did not start treatment within six months of diagnosis with any of three targeted drugs that have led to dramatic improvements in survival for the disease.
New gene therapy treatment proves effective for rare blood disorder
Researchers at the University of North Carolina and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treated factor VII deficient dogs with normal copies of genes; three years later the dogs remain healthy with no side effects.
UNC Hospitals is first in North Carolina to offer ‘blood washing’ t...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Gary Simpson tried just about everything to lower his extremely high cholesterol levels, but nothing seemed to work.