In a piece for the Huffington Post, sports physical therapist Abby Sims writes that Dillon Gee of the New York Mets was fortunate that a timely examination revealed the presence of a blood clot in his pitching shoulder.
Gee, a 26-year-old left-hander, had surgery this week to break up the clot. Doctors diagnosed the problem after he complained of numbness in his fingers.
Sims writes that blood clots can be very dangerous ...
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Bayer, maker of the Yasmin line of birth control pills, has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it illegally marketed aspirin mixed with supplements, Bloomberg reports.
Consumers sued a unit of the company, Bayer Healthcare LLC, in 2008 over its Bayer Women’s Low Dose Aspirin + Calcium and Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage, containing the supplement phytosterols.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned the company the ...
continue reading...A report in the Florida Times-Union concerns a man suing two doctors whom he blames for his wife’s death from a blood clot, because they failed to take her off the birth control pill Yasmin before her plastic surgery.
The lawsuit states it is well-known by medical practitioners that oral contraceptives increase the risk of fatal blood clots after surgery. The attorney representing the family cited the Physician’s Desk Reference, which ...
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The Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis provides a list of frequently asked questions to educate people about this potentially deadly condition.
Some of them are listed below.
Q. What is deep-vein thrombosis (DVT)?
A. Deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common but serious medical condition that occurs in approximately two million Americans each year.1 DVT occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in one of the large veins, usually in the lower limbs, ...
British and New Zealand scientists will conduct a study of “e-thrombosis,” or potentially deadly blood clots that can develop when people spend extended periods of time sitting in front of computers.
A Daily Express article on the study characterizes the phenomenon as a “silent killer” that could be affecting thousands of office workers in the U.K. alone.
Deep vein thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in one of the deeper veins, usually in the leg. It can be deadly if a ...
continue reading...According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis – the formation of a blood clot in one of the deeper veins – can be tricky. So can diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot breaks off and travels to the lungs.
That’s because other conditions produce similar symptoms. For example, muscle strains and swelling of veins close to the skin can ...
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