“Depending on the patient’s situation, there are pluses and minuses for treatments like medications or growth factors, and the patient guidelines aim to present balanced information on these options ...

Edward’s family knew in their gut that there was something off. After months of chemotherapy and the fight against his stage 3 throat cancer, the doctors had suggested he try a new biologic. This had ...

New resource helps patients and caregivers recognize and understand blood cell production deficiencies, to better participate in their care planning; available for ...

A 45-year-old woman with stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) due to lupus nephritis visits the nephrology clinic for routine follow-up. She has no overt uremic symptoms. There is no shortness of ...

A 14-year-old girl presented with pharyngitis, multiple bruises and hypermenorrhagia. Her previous history was uneventful. Her blood count revealed a hemoglobin of 7.5 g/dl, 0.7 leukocytes/nl with ...

Since the clinical findings of hypogammaglobulinemia (HGG) are explained by a deficient synthesis of circulating antibody, the development in such a patient of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AHA), due ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FibroGen, Inc. (NASDAQ: FGEN) today announced completion of patient enrollment for MATTERHORN, a Phase 3 clinical study of roxadustat for treatment of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new treatment for Sickle Cell Anemia, using the power of gene editing, was successfully completed and is now being studied at a Nashville hospital. "It is a very novel ...

A local sickle cell anemia patient met some of his blood donors who helped him get life-saving treatment. The donors-recipient meeting was held at the Rhode Island Blood Center’s Warwick Donor Center ...