Uncontrolled bleeding represents one of the most alarming medical situations people encounter. While minor cuts and scrapes typically stop bleeding within minutes, persistent bleeding despite proper ...

What Is Alhemo, and Why Does It Matter? Alhemo (concizumab-mtci) is a medicine approved to help prevent bleeding in people aged 12 or older with hemophilia A or B who don’t have inhibitors to certain ...

Biomedical researchers at Case Western Reserve University report that their latest innovation in developing synthetic platelets could help save lives by rapidly stabilizing clots to reduce blood loss ...

Since babies are born with low levels of the vitamin, they are more prone to serious bleeding, especially in the brain and ...

Kenichi Tanaka, M.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. The research, presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the ...

When you bleed, your body kicks into action with a series of reactions to help blood clots form to stop it. Called the coagulation cascade, this involves up to 20 different proteins known as clotting ...

Vonvendi is a lab-made version of von Willebrand factor (VWF), a protein your body needs for blood to clot. Affecting more than 3 million people in the U.S, von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a common ...

If you've ever accidentally sliced yourself on a broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed that the bleeding can be hard to stop. Scientists have long wondered how the cascade of events ...

Maggie Aime has over 25 years of experience in healthcare and as a nurse across specialties including oncology, kidney transplant, cardiology, and more. She leverages her rich healthcare experience to ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, in which the immune system attacks the gut, is a painful chronic condition that affects three million Americans. Rates of IBD are rising, and there's currently no cure. IBD ...