UNC expert helps treat astronaut's blood clot during NASA mission

(University of North Carolina Health Care) Moll was the only non-NASA physician NASA consulted when it was discovered that an astronaut aboard the ISS had a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) -- or blood clot -- in the jugular vein of their neck. Moll co-wrote a case study on the successful treatment that has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.