The proper frequency of these blood tests depends on your age and personal health status -- the most important thing is to ...

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

Thalassemia is viewed as a prevalent inherited blood disease that has gotten exorbitant consideration in the field of medical research around the world. Inherited diseases have a high risk that ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – MUSC Project Impact and the American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive for sickle cell patients. According to the American Red Cross, there is no universal cure fo… ...

Blood donation also stimulates the production of red blood cells in the bone marrow to make up for the blood lost during donation. This process also helps in keeping the blood system functional and ...

Unlike blood from humans, however, the artificial variety being tested in Japan does not need to match a certain blood type for transfusions. Like “universal donor” Type O- blood, the ...

What’s more, artificial blood reportedly is storable for up to two years, far longer than organic blood, which cannot be used after 42 days. Artificial blood is considered a solution to chronic blood ...

Ahead of the WMUR Blood Drive this Friday, Mike Bolduc, of the American Red Cross, shares why the need for blood donations is so great this time of year.

Damage to the vascular lining leads to interactions with red blood cells that hint at how to treat dangerous complications of heart attack, stroke and COVID-19.

Flow chart of population selection. ICH, intracerebral hemorrhage; MIMIC, Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care; ICU, intensive care unit; RDW, red cell distribution width; AIDS, acquired immune ...

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome in male immune cells negatively affects immune ...

“After birth, blood stem cells need to move from the liver, where they have resided throughout the last months of pregnancy to their definitive home in the bone marrow. We found that as they so travel ...