Until recently, researchers believed that platelet spreading and clot contraction were controlled by the same pathway. However a recent study from Thomas Jefferson University researchers challenges ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare blood cancer that causes your body to make too many red blood cells. Extra cells may not sound like a problem, but they are. They thicken your blood, which means ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to your ... such as through heavy menstrual flow or blood in your stool. As with IDA, a doctor can perform blood tests to determine your levels of ...

Sebastien Beauzile from Laurelton, Long Island, has become the first person in New York State to be cured of sickle cell ...

When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread out to stop the blood from leaking out. Once enough layers of platelets ...