Blood in the human body is a complex fluid. It is responsible for transport of dissolved gases, nutrients and waste products. It regulates the pH of not only itself, but of all the intercellular fluid in the body. In addition, blood carries hormones...

Whenever a blood vessel is broken due to injury, bleeding occurs. Bleeding soon stops, however, because the break is quickly sealed by a clot. The process by which a clot forms involves many steps and more than a dozen different proteins, or clotting...

Branch of biology that deals with blood and blood-forming...

Hematology (American English) or haematology (British English) is the branch of biology (physiology), pathology, clinical laboratory, internal medicine, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood...

Pharmion Corp.Boulder, Colo.pharmion.comWhen an unprofitable biotech's shares rise sharply, it usually means a developmental drug has done well in clinical trials.Pharmion's PHRM shares recently soared 75% over two days for a different reason. Its key drug, already on the market, proved to be more effective...

Cancer patients could be helped in the future as a result of research at the University of Kentucky that identified and mapped a gene in bone marrow, according to The Courier-Journal.The research has been done only in mice, the newspaper reported Monday, quoting an online...

Two U.S. senators are calling for a military probe of the use of a blood-clotting drug on wounded troops in Iraq, after reports of life-threatening clots following its use. The Defense Department should track all patients who receive the drug,...

Among people who have had blood clots, men are twice as likely as women to have them again after finishing treatment, according to an analysis of several studies. "Gender may need to be considered when deciding how long patients should...