A Metro Detroit teen is participating in a five-year double-blind controlled trial using a 125-year-old tuberculosis vaccine.

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Your immune system cells are your body's white blood cells that help fight infection and disease. Most of your white blood cells form in your bone marrow, but two other types -- T cells and B ...

Complete Blood Count The complete blood count (CBC) includes counts and other analyses of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It is usually normal in the early stages of lung cancer (or ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

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Platelet counts may fluctuate due to natural vascular aging, changes in bone marrow tissue, and altered blood plasma makeup. Platelets, or thrombocytes, are colorless fragments of larger cells ...