blood clot

Man's feet in red Converse sneakers propped on a blue suitcase with a Santa hat over the toes and airplanes on the runway out through the window. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Holiday Travel

Avoid Illness While Traveling This Holiday A record-breaking 112.5 million people — more than a third of all Americans — are expected to travel this holiday season, including 102 million who will take their trips by car. Nothing ruins a long-awaited vacation faster
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Blood clots block veins and cause swelling and pain. Sometimes they travel to the lungs and can cause death. (Photo: Shutterstock)

DVT

Many Treatments Can Mitigate Blood Clots When people talk about blood clots, they usually aren’t referring to whether their skinned knee will clot before the blood soaks through their Band Aid. That is the good side of clotting. Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, however, is the bad
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Two different opinions may not mean one is better. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Healthy Choices

When to Get a Second Medical Opinion Getting a second opinion for a medical condition isn’t quite the same as cheating on your hairstylist. In fact, when it comes to complex or serious, life-threatening conditions, most doctors encourage second opinions. “If you don’t have
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