News tagged with red blood cell


Single, high-dose erythropoietin given two days pre-op reduces need for transfused blood

Anemia increases operative mortality and morbidity in non-cardiac and cardiac surgical procedures. Anemic surgical patients may require more blood transfusions, raising the risk of transfusion-related complications and increasing ...

Surgery created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Discovery may help prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia

Cancer chemotherapy can cause peripheral neuropathy—nerve damage often resulting in pain and muscle weakness in the arms and legs. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered ...

Medical research created May 05, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bartonellosis: Diagnosing a stealth pathogen

(Medical Xpress)—NC State professor of veterinary internal medicine Ed Breitschwerdt has spent the last couple of decades working with Bartonella, bacteria historically associated with "cat scratch disease." ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hand-held device cheaply, quickly diagnosis malaria

A Case Western Reserve University student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research shows oral supplement increases body's storage of antioxidant

(Medical Xpress)—Oral supplementation of glutathione is effective in increasing the body's stores of the antioxidant, said Penn State College of Medicine researchers in study results presented at a conference today (April ...

Medical research created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Anti-sickling therapies should be focus for sickle cell science

Pain is an undeniable focal point for patients with sickle cell disease but it's not the best focus for drug development, says one of the dying breed of physicians specializing in the condition.

Medical research created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One step closer to understanding biology behind genetic variants linked to blood cell traits

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge have unpicked genetic variants that affect the formation of blood cells. They found that around a third of ...

Genetics created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The surprising ability of blood stem cells to respond to emergencies

A research team of Inserm, CNRS and MDC lead by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy (CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université) and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, ...

Immunology created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newly discovered blood protein solves 60-year-old riddle

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new protein that controls the presence of the Vel blood group antigen on our red blood cells. The discovery makes it possible to use simple DNA testing ...

Genetics created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Final chapter to 60-year-old blood group mystery

Researchers have solved a 60-year-old mystery by identifying a gene that can cause rejection, kidney failure and even death in some blood transfusion patients. In this study, published in Nature Genetics online ...

Genetics created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time

In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time.

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Kidney sparing surgery underutilized for patients who need it most

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have released study results that show national treatment trends in the surgical management of patients with kidney disease. The study found that partial ...

Surgery created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers decode biology of blood and iron disorders mapping out novel future therapies

Two studies led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College shed light on the molecular biology of three blood disorders, leading to novel strategies to treat these diseases.

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Baffling blood problem explained: 60-year-old health mystery solved

In the early 1950's, a 66-year-old woman, sick with colon cancer, received a blood transfusion. Then, unexpectedly, she suffered a severe rejection of the transfused blood. Reporting on her case, the French ...

Medical research created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

White blood cells found to play key role in controlling red blood cell levels

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that macrophages – white blood cells that play a key role in the immune response – also ...

Medical research created Mar 17, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast