Thrombosis

Rapper Heavy D died last month of a blood clot to the lung that was likely formed during a long flight home from London, where he performed a tribute to Michael Jackson, according to the coroner's chief of operations....

Forgive me, Dance Mom Nation, for I am an episode behind, having been sequestered at a hotel in Pasadena covering the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. I’m all caught up now and will recap the premiere (I think. Eventually.), but...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- An autopsy on Rapper Heavy D, who died suddenly at the age of 44, found that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. The autopsy report, which was released on Tuesday, revealed that Heavy D, whose real name was Dwight Arrnigton...

When Stan Long's doctor told him he needed prostate surgery, the unpleasant procedure bothered him less than the part of the price tag he'd be on the hook for: $15,000 for the hospital stay his Medicare plan didn't cover. So Long, who lives in Washington...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New guidelines for the nation's obstetricians say it's time to pay more attention to the risk of blood clots in pregnant women getting C-sections, which account for nearly a third of U.S. births. The recommendation is that doctors...

Beverly J. Rajca, who worked at a Baltimore shipyard during World War II and later was a homemaker, died Oct. 28 of thrombosis at her Mount Airy home. She was 87. Beverly Jones was born and raised in Cartwright, Tenn., where she graduated from...

He was known as Dr. Death, a Michigan physician who helped his patients kill themselves. In doing so, Jack Kevorkian inflamed a nationwide debate in the 1990s over a terminally ill patient's right to die. And he served eight years in prison for second-...

DETROIT (KTLA) -- Assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian has died at the age of 83, it was reported Friday. Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he had been hospitalized for about two weeks with kidney and heart problems,...

DETROIT (AP) — Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world’s attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder, has died in a Detroit area hospital...

Pulmonary embolisms - like the one affecting tennis star Serena Williams - are blood clots in the arteries of the lungs - and they often originate in the legs, traveling up to the lungs. Experts say they're more common in those who've been confined to...