To help diagnose von Willebrand disease or other bleeding disorders, a doctor will request various blood tests. These tests will measure the presence and activity of certain substances in the blood.

The FDA approved the enzyme replacement therapy Adzynma for the prophylactic or on-demand treatment of adults and pediatric patients with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare blood ...

Superwarfarins represent a class of long‐acting anticoagulant rodenticides that exert their effect through profound inhibition of vitamin K recycling, primarily by targeting vitamin K epoxide ...

Blood has many functions and circulates throughout your body. As a result, problems with it can affect you in many ways. Some of those problems can stem from a blood disorder. These disorders can ...

Research by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has discovered a new role for the blood clotting protein, von Willebrand Factor (VWF), that could lead to the development of new treatments ...

A Weatherford mother was hospitalized with what she calls a medical mystery. Krystal Gayer says she has a rare blood clotting disorder her doctors can’t explain. Gayer spent a month in an Oklahoma ...

A new observation suggests that a life-threatening blood clotting disorder can be caused by an infection with adenovirus, one of the most common respiratory viruses in pediatric and adult patients.

CHAPEL HIL – Platelets, or thrombocytes, are specialized cellular fragments that form blood clots when we get scrapes and traumatic injuries. Viral infections, autoimmune disease, and other conditions ...

A potentially fatal disorder which causes blood clotting has been linked to a common cold, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The team found a ...

For men with hemophilia B, receipt of gene therapy comprising an infusion of etranacogene dezaparvovec results in sustained endogenous factor IX expression and low annualized bleeding rates over five ...