Wendy Tabron, American Red Cross -National Biomedical Partnership Officer, said the Red Cross needs blood every two minutes. ...

Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the body. It has long been known that when red blood cells break down or anemia occurs due to bleeding, the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) increases, ...

Dear Reader: When someone’s red blood cells become abnormally large, it is a condition known as macrocytosis. These enlarged ...

A research team has discovered a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism modification. It has been known how immediate erythroid precursors ...

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and this month the American Red Cross is recognizing the critical need for ...

Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the body. It has long been known that when red blood cells break down or anemia occurs due to bleeding, the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) increases, ...

Useful in establishing the differential diagnosis of anemia, calculated by automated blood profiling machine from RBC count, hematocrit and hemoglobin Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) Expresses ...

The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell disease (SCD) despite the Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP) establishing standards of ...

Each of these has a different process of donation, and how often you can donate will depend on the type of blood ...

The best part: in every test so far, the cloaked cells otherwise act just like naked red blood cells. Their membrane remains ...

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month; the Red Cross emphasizes the need for blood donors, especially from the Black ...

The event was named after Florence Neal Cooper Smith, who has spent more than 40 years working to find a cure for sickle cell ...