Screening children for certain clotting proteins may help clinicians in resource-poor settings identify serious complications ...

What Is Cablivi, and Why Does It Matter? Cablivi (caplacizumab) is an injectable medicine used to treat a rare and serious blood condition called acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP).

I’m an 88-year-old woman whose platelets went into the 500,000 range. I was sent to a hematologist/oncologist, who said it was a bone marrow disease. I was put on ...

Few bodily functions are as misunderstood as blood clots. While most people have heard about blood clots in the heart or brain causing serious issues or even death, fewer realize that blood clotting ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Winter storms and seasonal illnesses have caused a critical need for blood donations, which hospitals rely on to treat their ...

But which numbers actually matter? Routine blood tests remain among the most important ways to track overall health, yet most people never learn what values physicians prioritize. Understanding key ...

Millions of people donate blood each year, saving countless lives. After a donation, plasma and white blood cells are ...