November 20, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned healthcare professionals regarding the significantly increased risk for serious and life-threatening cardiovascular (CV) ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a nonsmoking woman with a hemoglobin count of 17.4. I am 69, with no medical problems. I am not taking any medicine. I have people telling me that my hemoglobin count is too ...

If the body is deficient in iron, people can fall prey to many diseases. Iron deficiency not only weakens the body but you can also fall prey to anemia. Due to the lack of iron, folic acid, and ...

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 ...

People with HIV and their physicians could have a less expensive tool to track the progression from HIV infection to AIDS. According to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...

Complete blood count, especially neutrophil and hemoglobin values, may provide a window into the neurologic risk of patients with CKD, possibly identifying individuals who warrant closer brain health ...

Only 3% of the U.S. population actually donates blood despite most everyone is eligible to do so, said Dr. Courtney Hopkins, senior chief medical officer with Vitalant Blood Services. Speaking with ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A doctor can quickly get an idea of whether someone is anemic by pulling down the person’s eyelid and judging its redness, a color indicating the number of red blood cells. But ...

More than half of patients with myelofibrosis and low platelets treated with Vonjo saw platelets rise 58% and hemoglobin levels improve. More than half of patients with low platelets (thrombocytopenia ...

Purdue University engineers have created software that gives an accurate count of a patient’s hemoglobin, enabling physicians to diagnose blood disorders more quickly. The software is a more compact ...