"9/11, The Station Fire, and now this, have been the biggest responses I have seen since being here," said Amy Goldman, a ...

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

Despite decades of research, the average life expectancy for an American with sickle cell remains about 20 years shorter than ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...

Once seen as a last resort, bone marrow transplantation is now being viewed as a potential cure for several rare blood ...

On December 21, 1933, biochemists Stuart Mudd and Earl Flosdorf tasted success for the first time in their efforts to prepare dried human blood serum. While it remained a novelty until the onset of ...

Ferrets are beloved, curious creatures whose popularity as a family pet has steadily increased over the past decades. However ...

Chloë Adlerstein, 33, relies on life-saving blood transfusions every three weeks. She was born with beta thalassaemia, an ...

Aging taps us on the shoulder in many ways: wrinkles, thinning hair, loss of flexibility, slowing of the brain. But the ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35 after a battle with cancer, ...

Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and ...