Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...

Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

As is the case for institutions treating the disease, a majority of the sickle cell patients at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital are African American. The hospital recognized the need ...

Red blood cells placed in a solution with the same water concentration as their cytoplasm (0.85 per cent salt solution) will not experience an overall change in volume. No osmosis occurs.

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators in Uganda at the Makerere University School of Medicine have uncovered a significant connection between elevated uric acid ...

Hyperuricemia was tied to serious complications such as kidney injury, a higher risk of death during or after hospitalization ...