
(HealthDay News) — Your blood must clot to halt deadly blood loss. But when blood has a tendency to clot too much, it results in a dangerous condition called hypercoagulation.
The American Academy of Family Physicians says risk factors for hypercoagulation may include:
Sitting for extended periods, such as in a car or plane.
Staying in bed for [...]
One in Five Stroke Patients Leave Hospitals Without Prescriptions for Statin Medications
By
Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By
Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC
May 27, 2010 — Far too many stroke patients are being discharged from hospitals without receiving prescriptions for statin medications, a recent study shows.
This is alarming because previous studies possess shown that patients who take the cholesterol-lowering [...]

WEDNESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) — The kids of women who are exposed to certain industrial chemicals while pregnant are at an increased risk for developing breast cancer as adults, a recent animal study suggests.
The chemicals — bisphenol-A (BPA) as well as diethylstilbestrol (DES) — are primarily produced for industrial manufacturing purposes, as well as [...]

Here are some of the latest health as well as health examination news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
J&J Will Revamp Plants in Wake of Recall
Following a massive recall of its children’s medicines, Johnson & Johnson says it plans to restructure its manufacturing operations in an attempt to improve its tarnished image.
J&J’s McNeil [...]
Drug Derived From Shark Cartilage Did Not Extend Lives of Lung Cancer Patients
By
Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By
Laura J. Martin, MD
May 26, 2010 — Hopes that shark cartilage would prove to be a useful treatment for cancer were not borne out in one of the most rigorously designed as well as executed studies of an alternative [...]
Survey Shows More Than 10 Million U.S. Women Take Oral Contraception
By Joanna Broder
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By
Laura J. Martin, MD
May 26, 2010 — Incase you are a fan of the tried as well as real birth control pill, you are not alone.
Among American women in their childbearing years, ages 15 to 44, the pill was the [...]