The discovery solves a decades long puzzle about what sets off blood clotting. (Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever accidentally sliced yourself on a broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed ...

If you've ever accidentally sliced yourself on a broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed that the bleeding can be hard to stop. Scientists have long wondered how the cascade of events ...

In my last article, I described a situation when we had to struggle to get a blood thinning medicine to a patient with a blood clot. Today, I will try to explain how blood clots form in the body and ...

Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a protein crucial to the blood clotting process. If you don’t have enough of this protein, or if it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, you may have von Willebrand disease ...