What is a blood clot? Blood clots normally form after an injury to protect your body from losing too much blood, but they can also develop in an artery or vein even if there is no obvious injury. Complications can occur if it doesn’t dissolve naturally or if you don’t get treatment.

Here’s what blood clots are, how they’re typically treated and what they actually feel and look like so you can know when it's time to worry.

Blood cancer is one of the most dangerous in the world, but advancements in treatment are changing to landscape for patients. Read full article: Innovative treatments: The promise of bone marrow transplants and CAR T-cell therapy, and how you can help ...

Cancer and some treatments for cancer may cause changes to your blood that can encourage the formation of blood clots. Having cancer can greatly increase your risk of a pulmonary embolism. A pulmonary embolism (PE) is when a blood clot or another foreign ...

Serena Williams' absence from tennis could stretch to almost a year after two new health scares — a blood clot in her lungs followed by a hematoma — have added to her injury woes. Her agents confirmed Wednesday that Williams was diagnosed with a ...

In a televised interview on Banfield Monday night, R. Kelly’s attorney, Beau Brindley, claimed the singer suffered a medical emergency last week that nearly cost him his life and accused federal prison officials of interfering with his treatment.

Nick Cannon stepped down from his radio show to focus on his health. Feb. 17, 2012— -- Nick Cannon stepped down from his daily radio show today after revealing he suffered another health setback last week, when doctors discovered he had blood clots in ...

People Magazine reports that Serena Williams underwent emergency treatment at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday for hematoma, a complication of earlier treatment for a blood clot discovered in her lung artery last week. On Sunday night ...