Genetic testing should be used to help doctors spot high-risk cases of myeloma and enable targeted treatments, say ...

DRUGS may induce anemia by a variety of mechanisms, 1 including blood loss, hemolysis ... bone marrow appeared to be associated with the chronic ingestion of an analgesic containing aspirin ...

THICK blood smears (5–10 µl./cm. 2) can be grouped in the ABO blood group system by an absorptionelution technique which has been evolved in this Laboratory over the past two years.

Objective In individuals with complex underlying health problems, the association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and cardiovascular disease is less well recognised. The association between SBP ...

Seeing blood in your poop can be concerning. For some people, this blood can be a symptom of Crohn’s disease ... Chronic, low grade bleeding from multiple ulcers may lead to anemia.

A spirometry test is one way to distinguish the type of lung disease ... for people with chronic bronchitis. If your lungs can’t properly inflate and supply oxygen to your blood, your body ...

3 Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain 4 Primary Care Research Institute Jordi Gol, Girona, Spain Objective To examine the association ...

Objective To systematically identify and describe self-management interventions for adult patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD ... We found that physiological outcomes (ie, blood pressure) were ...

Almost 36 million Americans have chronic kidney disease or CKD, and 9 out of 10 of those people don’t know they have it. Most people have a pair of kidneys, which are organs located below the ribs ...

There are three basic mechanisms for developing anemia, namely: (i) blood loss (hemorrhage ... inflammation resulting from chronic diseases like tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus ...

Amie Wood had to have a hysterectomy following her cervical cancer diagnosis, after receiving incorrect results from a smear test A woman has expressed her anger after being diagnosed with ...