Treatment for stage 2 essential thrombocythemia is highly personalized. Not every patient requires medication right away, and decisions are based on age, mutation status, symptom burden, platelet ...

Platelets play an essential role in wound healing. Underproduction can cause devastating bleeding, while overproduction increases the deadly risk of thromboses. Maintaining a constant level of ...

Platelets are small, disc-shaped cell fragments in the blood that are essential to stop bleeding and to initiate blood clotting after injury. Platelet transfusions in patients with severe trauma or ...

Platelets are tiny cell fragments in your blood that help form clots and stop bleeding. Nearly 50% of donated platelets go to cancer patients. With a shelf life of only five days, hospitals rely on a ...

Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), a rare blood disorder that causes an increase in the number of blood cells. Some symptoms include headaches, dizziness, ...

Aside from transfusions, there currently is no way to boost people's platelet counts, leaving them at risk for uncontrolled bleeding. Could something as simple as a dietary change raise platelet ...

Explore how autologous bone marrow transplants offer hope for patients, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, on World Cancer Day.

SAN DIEGO -- Treatment with an investigational oral inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) was safe and boosted platelet counts in heavily pretreated patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), ...

Representative results of turbulent energy and shear stress for VerMES3, VerMES10, and VerMES50. There exists a defective flow space in the area surrounded by yellow dotted lines. iPS cell-derived ...

PL BioScience, a German life science company specializing in the production and development of human platelet lysate (HPL) for cell expansion, reported the first-time production of an artificial HPL ...