When can my baby drink cow's milk? It's sooner than you think, say researchers
Parents are often faced with well-meaning opinions and conflicting advice about what to feed their babies.
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Parents are often faced with well-meaning opinions and conflicting advice about what to feed their babies.
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About 6% of people in the UK are wrongly labeled on their medical records as being allergic to penicillin, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has warned.
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ETH Zurich molecular biologist Mandy Boontanrart is researching gene therapies that could be used to cure two of the most common types of inherited anemia. She has now developed a promising approach for so-called beta-hemoglobinopathies. ...
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Pregnant women with anemia are substantially more likely to suffer life-threatening bleeding after childbirth, according to a new study published in the journal The Lancet Global Health.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends oral iron taken twice daily as the standard of care in developing nations, but adherence to this treatment is poor.
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Findings from a new study reveal that some unexpected conditions are leading to more hospitalizations in people living with type 2 diabetes compared to the general population.
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Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have identified a DNA sequence that is crucial for pancreatic differentiation and function—and for the first time—describe how it works.
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Babies born to women with anemia during pregnancy have an increased risk of childhood anemia, according to a study carried out in rural India.
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Iron deficiency is the world's most common mineral deficiency and an important public health problem in Australia. In an article in the December edition of Australian Prescriber, Drs Shalini Balendran and Cecily Forsyth from ...
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Two years ago Laetitia Defoi suffered serious health complications from a blood transfusion gone wrong.
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Anemia ( /əˈniːmiə/; also spelled anaemia and anæmia; from Greek ἀναιμία anaimia, meaning lack of blood) is a decrease in number of red blood cells (RBCs) or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood. However, it can include decreased oxygen-binding ability of each hemoglobin molecule due to deformity or lack in numerical development as in some other types of hemoglobin deficiency.
Because hemoglobin (found inside RBCs) normally carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, anemia leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) in organs. Because all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences.
Anemia is the most common disorder of the blood. There are several kinds of anemia, produced by a variety of underlying causes. Anemia can be classified in a variety of ways, based on the morphology of RBCs, underlying etiologic mechanisms, and discernible clinical spectra, to mention a few. The three main classes of anemia include excessive blood loss (acutely such as a hemorrhage or chronically through low-volume loss), excessive blood cell destruction (hemolysis) or deficient red blood cell production (ineffective hematopoiesis).
There are two major approaches: the "kinetic" approach which involves evaluating production, destruction and loss, and the "morphologic" approach which groups anemia by red blood cell size. The morphologic approach uses a quickly available and low cost lab test as its starting point (the MCV). On the other hand, focusing early on the question of production may allow the clinician to expose cases more rapidly where multiple causes of anemia coexist.
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