Every year, more than 400,000 people die from malaria, the majority are children under the age of five years old, who die from a disease which affects more than 200 million people a year.
Jan 26, 2021
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With a name like glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, one would think it is a rare and obscure medical condition, but that's far from the truth. Roughly 400 million people worldwide live with potential of blood disorders ...
Jan 19, 2021
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A research team led by Nagoya University in Japan has found that blood pressure, the hematocrit (the percentage of red blood cells in blood), and serum cholesterol levels change in patients with Parkinson's disease long before ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Very low birthweight infants often need blood transfusions to survive. A National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests that providing a higher threshold of red cells within accepted limits offers no advantage in survival ...
Dec 31, 2020
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You're doing it! You're working out, reaping all those benefits of exercise that have been drilled into your head.
Dec 30, 2020
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Two teams of researchers working independently have found success in trialing gene therapies targeting sickle-cell anemia. Both teams have published papers in the New England Journal of Medicine describing their work and ...
Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide, especially Black people.
Dec 5, 2020
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Australian and European researchers have released updated, evidence-based guidance for managing iron deficiency, a serious worldwide health problem.
Dec 4, 2020
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For Evie Junior, living with sickle cell disease has been like running a marathon.
Nov 30, 2020
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WEHI researchers have identified a protein that could protect the kidneys from 'bystander' damage caused by cancer therapies.
Nov 25, 2020
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