A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of "Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Awareness Month".

No new law, no new spending — the Senate supports the goals of an awareness month for deadly blood clots.

The details

Most people would see no change in daily life. On March 25, 2025, the Senate agreed to a resolution about dangerous blood clots. It supports the goals and ideals of an awareness month for them. It also recognizes the importance of raising awareness. The Senate did not name a month, spend money, or change any rule for doctors, hospitals, or patients. A Senate resolution states the chamber's view and does not become law. The resolution lays out why the Senate acted. A deep vein thrombosis is a blood clot in a deep vein, most often in the leg. A pulmonary embolism is what happens when that clot breaks loose and lodges in the lung. The resolution calls these clots serious but often preventable. It states that they affect as many as 900,000 people in the United States each year. It states that they kill an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people a year. It also states that 1 in 4 people who have a lung clot die with no warning. It says that not moving for long stretches, surgery, and older age raise the risk. It also lists a family history of clotting and inherited clotting disorders. It says pregnancy raises the risk too, for up to 3 months after birth. It calls these clots a common problem for cancer patients, whose survival rates are lower when they get one. It puts the added medical cost at up to $10 billion a year. The text mentions March only in its reasons, not in what the Senate resolved.