Scientists find 48th blood group in woman with no compatible donors.
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A narrower, more personalized ‘normal range’ could help doctors better diagnose and treat disease in individual patients.
Up to 4,000 patients in England will be offered voxelotor to alleviate sickle cell symptoms.
Many people with sickle cell disease don’t receive adequate treatment to ease their pain and are subjected to racial discrimination and stigmatization.
Among young children, adolescents and adult women, anemia strikes 1 in 3 globally. Most cases are driven by dietary iron deficiency, red blood cell disorders and untreated tropical diseases.
Blood plays a vital role in keeping us alive, from delivering oxygen to the body’s organs to fighting off infections.
Today, human populations carry heavy genetic marks from the war with malaria. And it is the red blood cell (erythrocyte) that mostly bears the scars.
Blood is red, but our veins are blue. Or are they?
Improvements in survival rates for acute myeloid leukaemia have failed to keep pace with other leukaemias. That may be about to change.
Blood transports nutrients, hormones, proteins, vitamins and minerals around our body.
Everything you never knew about the red stuff in your veins.
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Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Head, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Aberdeen
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Adjunct Professor in Health Metrics Sciences and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington
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Researcher in Neonatal and Child Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
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Professor of Nursing, University of Florida
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund University
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Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Hematology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
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Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington
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Adjunct Professor, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Lund University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Medical Director of the Nordic Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Genomics, Region Skåne & Professor and Head of Division of Transfusion Medicine, Lund University