The Leleux family in Lafayette shares a rare blood disorder that has united them and the community. Dad, Alex, along with ...

Germany's most successful winter Olympian Claudia Pechstein has ended her speed skating career, she said in a news conference on Monday. The announcement comes 11 days after the 53-year-old athlete ...

Some of the conditions that cause anisopoikilocytosis are inherited. These include thalassemia and hereditary spherocytosis. Your doctor may also ask you about your family’s medical history.

Wagyu cattle have seen an upsurge in popularity within the United States in recent years, as consumers seek improved meat quality and intramuscular fat, also known as marbling. The small effective ...

Anaemia is a condition characterised by low haemoglobin levels or a reduced number of red blood cells, leading to inadequate oxygen delivery to tissues. It is often identified through abnormal ...

She never failed a doping test and said tests showed that the elevated levels of reticulocytes, were the result of a blood anaemia called spherocytosis which she inherited from her father.

A diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis was made based on characteristic peripheral blood film appearances and confirmed by eosin-5-maleimide binding test. Exposure of an undiagnosed haemolytic ...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) is a blood test that calculates the average concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells in relation to their total volume. Low MCHC values may ...

In the developed world, most of the reported complications of transfusion have an immunological basis. Although the media and the public are worried about the infectious risks of transfusion ...

A 2-year-old male Yorkshire Terrier weighing 4.88 kg referred to the emergency service for lethargy, vomiting, melena and anuria. The dog had a history of massive Hymenoptera envenomation, with over ...

A medical emergency involving her young daughter opened the eyes of Brooke Deason as to how important it is to donate blood.

From wetting the bed to acne, we have crunched the numbers on the success rate of every single disability claim. It comes after the Work and Pensions Secretary announced plans to wipe £5billion off ...