http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified a way that chemotherapy causes platelet numbers to drop, answering in the process a decade-old question about the formation of platelets, tiny cells that allow blood to clot. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-discovery-chemo-platelet.html Cancer Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:31:46 EST news236187091