Red blood cells carry oxygen, white ones fight infections, and platelets clot your blood to stop bleeding. Most people with polycythemia vera have too many red blood cells. But it can also cause ...

Platelets (also called thrombocytes) are small blood cell fragments made by your bone marrow. They help form blood clots to stop you from bleeding when you've been injured. Platelets are small ...

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 ...

Research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute reveals that younger stem cell donors lead to better transplant outcomes.

The spleen becomes swollen (enlarged). An enlarged spleen might destroy too many red blood cells and platelets (cells that help the blood to clot). This can make you tired and breathless. Or you might ...

Although myeloma is treatable, it is generally not curable, and advanced therapies like blood stem cell transplantation can ...

Sharon Curole of Manchester (center) cuts the ribbon to celebrate the opening of the American Red Cross Blood and Platelet Donation Center in Amherst on Oct. 23. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 24 ...

The Red Cross has an estimate that every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood or platelets and approximately 29,000 ...