Word: clots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cramps. After two hours the cramps got stronger, and I started using a heating pad on my belly. I went to the restroom. When I started to stand up, it was like a faucet turned on. There was a steady stream of blood. I passed a golfball-size blood clot that scared me. I thought maybe it was the fetus...
...fled the scene and was not pursued. He was taken by ambulance to Cambridge Hospital, according to Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, and transferred to Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary. He received seven stitches and treatment for a blood clot in his right...
...wearing a bandage over his right eye, said last night he had difficulty reading because of the medication he was using to treat the blood clot...
...Three drugs given to heart-attack victims -- magnesium, nitrates and captopril (the drug just found to be good for diabetics' kidneys) -- are surprisingly ineffective. Still worth taking: aspirin, clot dissolvers and beta blockers...
...Journal of Medicine reported that when you're dreaming, the sympathetic nervous system, which helps the body react to emergencies, is twice as active as it is when you're awake. Your heart beats faster, your blood pressure goes up, and your blood can get stickier, so it can clot and cause a heart attack. On the other hand, waking up isn't so great either. Heart attacks occur more often in the morning than at any other time...