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For the first time, a blood test has been shown to help detect many types of cancer in a study of thousands of people with no history or symptoms of the disease.The test is still experimental. Even its fans say it needs to be improved and that Tuesday’s results are not ideal. Yet they show…

April 24, 2020 -- Hooman Poor, MD, was tired of watching his patients die, and it looked like another was slipping away. She was on a ventilator, but it wasn’t helping. Oxygen wasn’t getting to her organs. Acid was building in her blood. Her body was in shock. Her kidneys were failing, but he couldn’t…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) As doctors learn more about what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots.Many doctors have reported seeing an alarming number of COVID-19 patients with blood clots — gel-like clumps in the blood that can cause serious…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Doctors are beginning to notice that blood clots could be another troubling complication for patients who are hospitalized with coronavirus.The clots present the latest challenge for doctors working to understand the new virus that is known to cause respiratory disease. These clots…

Share on PinterestResearch suggests an impaired blood clotting mechanism helps explain why some people have more severe forms of COVID-19.The conditions that raise the risk of COVID-19 severity are high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and conditions affecting the kidneys. Researchers are still investigating…