Blood Chemistry
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 int...
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Bleeding Disorders and Blood Coagulation Defects
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 proc...
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Monte-Carlo (dpa) - Athletic's controlling body IAAF on Friday
announced that all doping tests conducted at last month's world
championships returned negative results.
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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 so...
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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 h...
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Vienna (dpa) - People who are overweight, very tall or short may
run a risk up to 100 times higher of developing venous thrombosis
after air travel, experts in Vienna said F...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Umbilical cord blood
transplants, even from unrelated donors, can help save the
lives of babies born with certain inherited metabolic
disorders, U.S. researchers reported Mo...
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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 Dep...
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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 co...
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Only a fraction of patients with hard-to-treat lymphoma ever try two breakthrough "smart-bomb" drugs that bring radiation straight to cancerous cells _ with just two shots a week apart, not the usu...
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Customs officials have banned exports of blood samples and other biological materials from Russia, leading courier companies said Wednesday, a decision that experts said could lead to the deaths of...
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Cancer doctors seek to loosen federal restrictions on anemia drugs that carry potentially deadly side effects, saying the tight payment guidelines for treatments made by Amgen and Johnson and Johns...
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