Flying and Blood Clots: A Deadly Risk
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Life-threatening blood clots and flying have been linked for more than 50 years, but a new study confirms the risk, particularly for those who take long flights.
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A new study by a team of German researchers suggests that commuting could be hazardous to your health. The study found an increased risk in having a heart attack, within two hours of being in traffic.
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Sitting in a cube staring at a computer all day boosts office workers' risk of developing deadly deep-vein thrombosis. By the Associated Press.
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NEW YORK  - Cancer greatly increases the  risk that the patients will develop a blood clot in a vein  (venous thrombosis), especially in recently diagnosed patients,  patients with cancer that has spread to distant sites  (metastases), and those with certain genetic mutations,  according to Dutch researchers. While anticoagulant therapy  might be beneficial, they say, the associated increased risk of  bleeding has to be considered.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients who have drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared with the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis by the Cleveland Clinic released yesterday.
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Un primo involucro di materiale aeronautico. Poi altre due casse protettive. E sensori anti-shock. I preparativi per la trasferta
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women who take hormone therapy that combines estrogen with progestin have double the risk for venous thrombosis, a type of blood clot, according to a recent study.
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Air travelers face the biggest risk of death or injury on the ground.
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Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Evra   contraceptive patch will come with a new warning about a study   suggesting users could face twice the risks of blood clots   compared with birth control pills, the company and U.S.   regulators said on Wednesday.
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Is airplane racing too dangerous to be a spectator sport?
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NEW YORK  - Transfusion of blood from a donor around the time of surgery appears to increase the risk of blood clots in women, but not in men, according to a new study.
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Scientists have long known that air pollution is a serious health hazard that increases the risk of premature death. But a new study may come as a shock.
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Science & environment: People living around airports are 40% more likely to develop high blood pressure, says study
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Women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at an increased risk of developing life-threatening blood clots, it was reported today.
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The World Health Organization recommended Friday that passengers on long flights exercise their legs and resist taking sleeping pills to reduce the risk of potentially fatal blood clots.
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Drug-coated stents -- tiny, wire-mesh   tubes used to prop open diseased arteries -- may increase the   risk of potentially fatal blood clots, researchers said on   Sunday.
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CERGY-PONTOISE, France -- A metal strip that fell off a Continental Airlines jet and a fuel tank design fault led to the deaths of 113 people in the Concorde air disaster near Paris in 2000, an official report said on yesterday.