Postpartum hemorrhage, severe bleeding after childbirth, is a leading cause of maternal mortality around the world. But many ...

Researchers have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera. Blood clots form naturally as a way to stop bleeding when ...

There are several lab tests for hemophilia. However, the main tests detect the clotting activity of factors VIII and IX, which are proteins in the blood. Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder in which an ...

The University of Washington announced that a team of researchers has developed a prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) blood clotting test that requires only a single drop of blood ...

Coagulation tests are useful in the diagnosis and management of bleeding or thrombotic disorders. The majority of hospital and reference laboratories perform routine coagulation testing such as ...

The fibrinogen blood test is used to assess how well the protein called fibrinogen — also called coagulation factor I — performs in the blood and to measure its levels in your blood. The test is also ...

What Is the Platelet Aggregation Test? A platelet aggregation test is a blood test that looks at how well your blood cells called platelets clump together and clot. It is sometimes called a platelet ...

In a potential paradigm change for sepsis diagnostics, a new test predicted sepsis soon after infection in mice - well before blood clotting and organ failure - enabling early antibiotic treatment and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coagulo Medical Technologies, an MIT-born startup that has developed the world’s first precision-medicine platform for comprehensive and targeted blood clotting ...