Medical research
Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding
Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole and stop the bleeding.
Aug 14, 2018
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Surprising new role for lungs—making blood
Using video microscopy in the living mouse lung, UC San Francisco scientists have revealed that the lungs play a previously unrecognized role in blood production. As reported online March 22, 2017 in Nature, the researchers ...
Mar 22, 2017
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Low-level laser therapy may improve treatment of dangerous bleeding disorder
A low-intensity type of laser treatment may offer a non-invasive, drug-free treatment for thrombocytopenia - a potentially life-threatening shortage of the blood cells called platelets that are essential to blood clotting. ...
Jul 27, 2016
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Solution to platelet 'puzzle' uncovers blood disorder link
Melbourne researchers have solved a puzzle as to how an essential blood-making hormone stimulates production of the blood clotting cells known as platelets.
Apr 7, 2014
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Single drug and soft environment can increase platelet production: research
Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there aren't enough of them, such as with certain diseases or during invasive surgery. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have ...
Jul 13, 2011
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Single drug, soft environment can increase platelet production
(Medical Xpress) -- Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there aren’t enough of them, such as with certain diseases or during invasive surgery. Now, University of Pennsylvania ...
Jul 8, 2011
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Health
Cellular impact of 'Heat not Burn' products may be no less harmful than cigarettes
The impact on lung cells of Heat not Burn products—a hybrid between traditional cigarettes and electronic vaping devices—may be no less harmful than that of conventional cigarettes, suggest the findings of a small comparative ...
Apr 19, 2021
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Challenging our understanding of how platelets are made
Platelets are uniquely mammalian cells, and are the small cells of the blood that are critical for us to stop bleeding when we cut ourselves. They are also a central part of the process of thrombosis, which underlies heart ...
Jun 22, 2018
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Blood discovery could benefit preemies, help end platelet shortages
The emergency call issued by the American Red Cross earlier this year was of a sort all too common: Donations of platelets were needed, and desperately. But a new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...
May 19, 2017
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Medications
Promacta approval expanded to kids with rare blood disorder
(HealthDay)—U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug Promacta (eltrombopag) has been expanded to include children one year and older with a rare blood disorder called chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura ...
Aug 24, 2015
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