If you have ever had a cut, tooth extraction, or been bruised, you know the importance of your body’s ability to form a clot and stop that bleeding. Usually, when someone bleeds, platelets (tiny blood cells) and proteins called clotting factors come together in a series of events leading to clot formation. Recently, the U.S. […]

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Leukemia is a form of cancer with an annual diagnosis rate of 14.1 people per 100,000 of the population, with nearly half of these cases (6.0 per 100,000) dying from the disease. People over 55 and under 15 are the population group in which this condition is most common.1 Leukemia is a systemic malignant (cancerous) […]

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A recent study is the first to reveal that COVID-19 can leave micro clots post-infection. These blood clots may contribute to persistent COVID-related symptoms post-infection including fatigue and muscle weakness, also termed Long COVID.  What is “Long COVID”?  The research group led by Professor Resia Pretorius at Stellenbosch University in South Africa set out to […]

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Vitamin C plus iron supplementation was not helpful in a study of women with iron deficiency anemia. Iron deficiency anemia is a specific type of anemia due to insufficient iron in the body (either inadequate dietary intake or absorption of iron or iron loss from bleeding). Iron deficiency causes approximately half of all anemia cases […]

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Researchers uncover an easy-to-measure and reliable predictor of survival and unplanned hospitalizations amongst patients suffering from blood cancer. This quick and easy measure is gait speed (the speed with patients walk). Gait speed has been recommended as “a practical assessment of functional and physical performance in older patients with cancer.” A second measure that is […]

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A study published in PLoS ONE highlights the high prevalence of iron deficiency and the associated gender patterns in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, a protein molecule that carries oxygen from the lungs to every cell in the body. Hemoglobin is made by combining a heme protein and an iron […]

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Researchers investigated a new gene therapy method using a vector virus aimed at improving symptoms and treatment of severe hemophilia A. Hemophilia A is a genetic disorder characterized by spontaneous bleeding in muscles and joints as well as a higher risk of bleeding inside the skull. The disease is caused by a genetic mutation that […]

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Researchers at Spark Therapeutics and Pfizer tested the safety and efficacy of a new hemophilia gene therapy vector for the treatment of hemophilia B. The body’s ability to stop bleeding and repair damaged blood vessels depends heavily upon a variety of clot-forming enzymes. Deficiency in one such enzyme, coagulation factor IX, results in the development […]

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