A teenager with a rare blood disorder is "taking things day by day" after receiving a life-saving stem cell transplant, her ...

Exclusive: Demand for blood to treat the rare disorder has soared by 132% in 10 years ...

Blood disorders affect millions of people worldwide, yet their potential to develop into blood cancers often goes unrecognized. Medical experts emphasize that understanding this connection plays a ...

Learn how to treat a sickle cell disease crisis at home and when you should go to a medical center for more care.

Thousands are flying abroad for stem cell treatments that cost a fortune and lack evidence. Here’s what’s real.

For generations, Sickle Cell Disease has been a devastating illness affecting millions of people around the world, ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy travelling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and autoimmune conditions can overlap, and each may raise the risk of the other. Up to 30% of people with MDS also have an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmune conditions ...

What Is an MCHC Blood Test? A mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) blood test measures the amount of a protein called hemoglobin in your red blood cells. It’s one of many measurements ...

Almost all animal species—including humans—have blood cells, but between different species our blood tells different stories. The lineage and components of blood cells vary widely, and this variety is ...

Blood cells carry a deep evolutionary history. A new analysis suggests their earliest ancestors were macrophage-like cells ...