A tropical vacation to the Dominican Republic ended with a far northwest suburban Chicago family stuck in the hospital, and ...

New milli-spinner technology from Stanford offers breakthrough in blood clot treatment by compressing clots to 5% of original ...

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama expects to play this coming season and has been fully cleared after dealing with ...

Learn the life-threatening brain blood clot signs everyone should recognize. These red flags require immediate emergency care ...

The device, called a milli-spinner, is a tiny, powerfully rotating hollow tube outfitted with fins and slits. In action, both lab and swine tests demonstrate the ability to dramatically compact and ...

Meritus and WVU Medicine Berkeley both received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus ...

Stanford researchers have discovered a breakthrough technology that shrinks and removes blood clots to treat strokes, heart ...

Stanford's milli-spinner removes tough clots by shrinking them, not tearing them, with a 90 percent first-try success in stroke models.

Researchers at the TechMed Center of the University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center have removed blood clots with wireless magnetic robots. This innovation promises to transform ...

Hamilton Medical Center's Sonny Achtchi, DO, recently faced a particularly challenging case of blood clot removal, technically known as a thrombectomy. Officials said, "Dr. Achtchi performed yet ...

Research Highlights: Mechanically retrieving a blood clot blocking a medium- or small-sized brain artery was no better at reducing disability 90 days after a stroke than standard care alone ...

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 15 million people suffer a stroke every year worldwide. Ischemic strokes caused by blood clots blocking brain arteries account for about 87 ...