A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests that white blood cells in people with major depressive disorder show ...

The American Red Cross says it is experiencing a drastic decline in the number of blood donors.

Learn how to treat a sickle cell disease crisis at home and when you should go to a medical center for more care.

Blood disorders affect millions of people worldwide, yet their potential to develop into blood cancers often goes unrecognized. Medical experts emphasize that understanding this connection plays a ...

A cutting-edge procedure for treating sickle cell disease is changing lives in the St. Louis area, where an estimated 1,200 ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and autoimmune conditions can overlap, and each may raise the risk of the other. Up to 30% of people with MDS also have an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmune conditions ...

Healthy sleep and regular exercise can work to counteract genetic mutations in white blood cells that are associated with cardiovascular disease and are most common among older people, Mount Sinai ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy travelling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

Stem cell transplantation is the most cost-effective option for long-term care of sickle cell disease in adults when compared ...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By ...

TERRIBLE. NEBRASKA ADVOCATES URGE PEOPLE TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES TO SUPPORT SICKLE CELL AWARENESS MONTH. THE RED BLOOD CELL DISORDER AFFECTS 8 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. PATIENTS REQUIRE REGULAR BLOOD ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the hormone FGF23 reduces the production of red blood cells and may ...