The MCHC blood test measures the concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells, helping diagnose anemia and other blood disorders.

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine pioneered a first of its kind gene therapy model that offers a potential ...

More research is needed to confirm these findings. Blood transfusions can be life saving for people with anemia following a heart attack, reveals a study published in NEJM Evidence.

However, if your doctor diagnoses you with sideroblastic anemia, also known as SA, you have too much iron in your blood cells. SA forces bone marrow to produce abnormal red blood cells.

Anemia is a severe complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that is associated with an increased risk of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline, hospitalization, and cardiovascular events.1 ...

Blood tests a doctor may use to diagnose anemia include a complete blood count, iron tests, and more. Learn the types of anemia blood test.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a rare disorder that accidentally destroys healthy red blood cells, causing symptoms like fatigue and weakness.

Comprehensive genomic analysis identifies a diverse landscape of sideroblastic and non-sideroblastic iron related anemias with novel and pathogenic variants in an iron deficient endemic setting.

Lower plasma ferritin levels are associated with increased risk for HFpEF and incident heart failure in older adults without anemia.

Half didn't receive blood unless their blood count was less than eight g/dL, the restrictive transfusion strategy. All patients in the study had a heart attack and anemia, meaning they had a ...