When someone is badly injured, doctors urgently need two facts: the patient's blood type, so that a transfusion is safe, and ...

A large UK Biobank cohort study finds that higher red blood cell distribution width, a routine blood count measure, is associated with an increased risk of hip fracture in older adults.

Heart failure remains one of medicine's most stubborn revolving doors: patients leave the hospital, only to return within ...

Various factors block sufferers of disease from receiving treatment that is effective and has widespread availability Sickle cell patients are missing out on an effective treatment despite widespread ...

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