Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure — a condition called hypertension. Hypertension is the leading risk factor for heart disease and stroke. But it gets worse: Hypertension also ...

Here are 5 things individuals should know about the powerful impact of blood donation and the benefits becoming a donor can have for patients in need. January is celebrated as National Blood Donor ...

Adam Taylor is affiliated with the Anatomical Society. Blood is fascinating. Many people learn at school that its function is to transport oxygen and nutrients around the body and remove waste ...

Blood donation and transfusion save lives. Unfortunately, there’s also a long history of misinformation and fear around donations. For example, there was a time when blood donation was segregated by ...

When Caroline Wangamati was touring a rural Kenyan hospital in 2018, the doctors shared that two young mothers would likely be dead within hours. Their hemoglobin levels were catastrophically low — a ...

Acute anemia can develop due to a rapid drop in red blood cells (RBCs) after losing blood. The more blood a person loses, the more severe the anemia becomes. It usually occurs due to hemorrhage or ...

High blood sugar and inflammation travel hand in hand. Learn how small, realistic morning changes can make a big difference ...

After an allogeneic stem cell transplant, a recipient’s body faces a daunting task: rebuilding the person’s blood-forming and immune systems from the ground up from a relatively small number of “seed” ...

As an attending physician in Ottawa, I often treat women who are recently diagnosed with a blood clot. My female patients are of all ages — from young women to the elderly — but they often have one ...